People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
~By Jerry Lewis ~
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.
~By William Gilmore Simms ~
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
~By Edgard Varese ~
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
~By Gamal Abdel Nasser ~
It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
~By J. Reuben Clark ~
It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.
~By Paul Goodman ~
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
~By Aneurin Bevan ~
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
~By Beck ~
I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.
~By Leo Szilard ~
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
~By Joseph Addison ~
My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.
~By Lisa Whelchel ~
To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.
~By Lukas Foss ~
Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
~By Clive Bell ~
It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
~By Diana Wynne Jones ~
I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
~By George Eliot ~
The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.
~By John George Nicolay ~
I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.
~By Richard Donner ~
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
~By Bernard Berenson ~
But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.
~By Hugh Grant ~
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
~By Ezra Pound ~
Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.
~By Dorothy Kilgallen ~
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
~By Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ~
If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
~By Frances Wright ~
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
~By John Ciardi ~
And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.
~By Olivier Martinez ~
Genius is eternal patience.
~By Michelangelo ~
I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.
~By Stanley Tucci ~
Since when was genius found respectable?
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.
~By Kathe Kollwitz ~
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
~By Margot Fonteyn ~
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
~By Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont ~
We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
~By Walt Disney ~
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
It will work. I am a marketing genius.
~By Paris Hilton ~
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
~By Warren Beatty ~
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
~By Edmond de Goncourt ~
Genius is childhood recalled at will.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
~By Charles Bukowski ~
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
~By J. G. Ballard ~
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
~By William Hazlitt ~
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
~By Louis Aragon ~
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
~By Ezra Pound ~
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
~By Fritz Kreisler ~
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
~By Max Gluckman ~
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
~By Washington Irving ~
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
~By Robert Graves ~
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Gene Roddenberry was a genius.
~By Persis Khambatta ~
He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management.
~By John Wozniak ~
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
~By Malcolm Cowley ~
Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.
~By Stanley Jordan ~
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
~By Allen Ginsberg ~
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
~By Eugene Delacroix ~
Genius is independent of situation.
~By Charles Churchill ~
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
~By Charles Peguy ~
For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius.
~By Pablo de Sarasate ~
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
~By Denis Diderot ~
David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.
~By Juliana Hatfield ~
We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
~By Jackie DeShannon ~
Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
~By Francis Herbert Hedge ~
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
~By Rufus Wainwright ~
Genius is nothing but continued attention.
~By Claude Adrien Helvetius ~
Dandyism is a variety of genius.
~By William Hazlitt ~
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
~By James Whistler ~
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.
~By Giorgio Vasari ~
The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.
~By Phil Bredesen ~
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
~By Robert Lynd ~
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
Taste is the feminine of genius.
~By Edward Fitzgerald ~
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