What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
~By Oscar Levant ~
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
~By Stendhal ~
David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.
~By Juliana Hatfield ~
With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.
~By Paul Eldridge ~
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
~By Josh Billings ~
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
~By Louis Aragon ~
Taste is the feminine of genius.
~By Edward Fitzgerald ~
I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
~By Nat King Cole ~
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
~By William Godwin ~
Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.
~By Lukas Foss ~
Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.
~By Lita Grey Chaplin ~
I think they should take everyone who works for The National Enquirer and the Star, and everyone who works for Us Weekly, and put them all to work looking for terrorists. I think they would find the terrorists. All of them. It would be genius!
~By Brittany Murphy ~
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
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 ~
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
~By Mark Twain ~
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
~By James Madison ~
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.
~By George Saintsbury ~
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
~By Joshua Reynolds ~
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
~By Louis Auchincloss ~
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
~By Alain Prost ~
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
~By Edmund Spenser ~
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
She was a genius, my mother.
~By Sally Kirkland ~
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
~By Billy Wilder ~
The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.
~By Nigel Kneale ~
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
~By Anna Garlin Spencer ~
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 ~
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
~By George Steiner ~
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
~By Robert Blair ~
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 ~
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
~By Josh Billings ~
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
~By Fulton J. Sheen ~
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
~By Joseph Addison ~
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
~By James Joyce ~
Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.
~By James Lipton ~
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
~By James Lipton ~
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
~By Madeleine Albright ~
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
~By Denis Diderot ~
If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
~By Peter York ~
Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.
~By Mary MacLane ~
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
~By John Dryden ~
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
~By Edmund Wilson ~
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
~By Terry Pratchett ~
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist.
~By Rick Yune ~
In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.
~By Mary MacLane ~
To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
~By Adrienne Clarkson ~
Genius, when young, is divine.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
~By Randy Newman ~
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
~By Bell Hooks ~
It will work. I am a marketing genius.
~By Paris Hilton ~
Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
~By Robert Hughes ~
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
~By Anna Garlin Spencer ~
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.
~By Richard Donner ~
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
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 ~
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.
~By Al Spalding ~
For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius.
~By Pablo de Sarasate ~
Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.
~By Richard Attenborough ~
The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
~By Auguste Rodin ~
Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.
~By Rich Lowry ~
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 ~
Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
~By Orson Welles ~
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
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 ~
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
~By Charles Peguy ~
Genius is never understood in its own time.
~By Bill Watterson ~
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.
~By Peter Fonda ~
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