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John Adams Genius is sorrow's child.
Joey Lauren Adams A genius is one who can...
Maude Adams Genius is the talent for...
Henry B. Adams Susceptibility to the highest forces...
Joseph Addison Books are the legacies that a...
Joseph Addison Irregularity and want of method...
Joseph Addison If you wish to succeed in...
Mark Akenside This was Shakespeare's form; who...
Madeleine Albright To understand Europe, you have...
Louisa May Alcott You have a good many little...
Louisa May Alcott It takes people a long time...
Louisa May Alcott Conceit spoils the finest genius...
William R. Alger To appreciate and use correctly...
Henri Frederic Amiel Doing easily what others find...
Henri Frederic Amiel To do easily what is difficult...
Jean Anouilh Are you in earnest? Seize this...
Jean Anouilh A genius knows how to make...
Minna Antrim To know one's self is wisdom...
Louis Aragon We know that the nature of...
Louis Aragon The function of genius is to...
Aristotle No great genius has ever...
Aristotle There was never a genius...
Aristotle There is no great genius...
Antonin Artaud There is in every madman a...
Richard Attenborough Well, you cannot think of...
Louis Auchincloss A neurotic can perfectly well...
Marcus Aurelius Aptitude found in the understanding...
Charles Babbage Surely, if knowledge is valuable...
Francis Bacon The genius, wit, and the...
J. G. Ballard Any fool can write a novel...
Honore De Balzac The man whose action habitually...
Maurice Baring In Mozart and Salieri we see...
Pierre Charles Baudelaire Genius is childhood recalled at...
Warren Beatty Marriage requires a special talent...
Pierre Beaumarchais Because you are a great lord...
Simone de Beauvoir One is not born a genius...
Beck I'm the artist formally known...
Beck When my nephew was 3 and...
Max Beerbohm Men of genius are not quick...
Max Beerbohm I have known no man of...
Clive Bell Genius worship is the inevitable...
Bernard Berenson Genius is the capacity for...
Henri Bergson Genius is that which forces...
Aneurin Bevan This island is made mainly of...
Aneurin Bevan The Prime Minister has an...
Aneurin Bevan This island is almost made of...
Ambrose Bierce Genius - to know without having...
Josh Billings Genius ain't anything more than...
Josh Billings Common sense is instinct, and...
Josh Billings Genius ain't nothing more than...
Jimmy Carl Black As far as me knowing if...
Ritchie Blackmore The only way you can get...
Robert Blair Action, so to speak, is the...
Linda Blair Of all the projects I've...
Richard Parks Bland Many now born, by the time...
Neil Bogart If you hype something and it...
Daniel J. Boorstin I've learned any fool can...
Christian Nestell Bovee Genius makes its observations in...
Jonathan Brandis I am the farthest thing from...
Phil Bredesen The genius of America is that...
Andre Breton Dali is like a man who...
Van Wyck Brooks Genius and virtue are to be...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Since when was genius found...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning What is genius but the power...
Craig Bruce The difference between being able...
Charles Bukowski Genius might be the ability to...
Martin Van Buren Those who have wrought great...
Leo Burnett I have learned that any fool...
Ken Burns The genius of our country is...
Sid Caesar The guy who invented the first...
Taylor Caldwell No woman has ever been an...
Italo Calvino What Romantic terminology called genius...
Thomas Carlyle Humor has justly been regarded...
Thomas Carlyle Genius is an infinite capacity...
Kim Cattrall If you stick with a vision...
Paul Cezanne Genius is the ability to renew...
Charlie Chaplin Man as an individual is a...
Lita Grey Chaplin Charlie Chaplin's genius was in...
Ron Chernow As a bull market continues...
Lydia M. Child The eye of genius has always...
Winston Churchill True genius resides in the...
Charles Churchill Genius is independent of situation...
Charles Churchill Genius is of no country.
John Ciardi Intelligence recognizes what has happened...
J. Reuben Clark It is the union of...
Adrienne Clarkson To be complex does not mean...
George Clooney When you're young you believe...
Glenn Close Ismail Merchant was just the...
Nat King Cole I make no claim to being...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge To sentence a man of true...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge People of humor are always in...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Talent, lying in the understanding...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge The genius of the Spanish...
Alan Colmes Genius, scholar, and war hero...
Charles Caleb Colton The drafts which true genius...
Charles Caleb Colton Moderation is the inseparable companion...
Charles Horton Cooley A talent somewhat above mediocrity...
Calvin Coolidge Nothing in this world can take...
Hannah Cowley It requires genius to make a...
Malcolm Cowley Talent is what you possess...
Alex Cox In Goodfellas they have this...
Quentin Crisp The poverty from which I have...
Edward Dahlberg Genius, like truth, has a...
Robertson Davies Few people can see genius in...
Eugene Delacroix Talent does whatever it wants...
Eugene Delacroix What moves those of genius...
John Denham Nor ought a genius less than...
Denis Diderot Evil always turns up in this...
Denis Diderot The general interest of the...
Denis Diderot Genius is present in every age...
Denis Diderot Gaiety is a quality of...
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Which is why, in my lieder...
Benjamin Disraeli Every production of genius must...
Benjamin Disraeli Desperation is sometimes as powerful...
Benjamin Disraeli Mediocrity can talk, but it is...
Isaac Disraeli Enthusiasm is that secret and...
Isaac Disraeli Fortune has rarely condescended to...
Isaac Disraeli Many men of genius must arise...
Isaac Disraeli To think, and to feel...
Isaac Disraeli The golden hour of invention...
Benjamin Disraeli Genius, when young, is divine.
Arthur Conan Doyle Mediocrity knows nothing higher than...
John Dryden Genius must be born, and never...
John Dryden Time, place, and action may...
Lawrence Durrell Like all young men I set...
Andrea Dworkin The genius of any slave system...
Henry Van Dyke Genius is talent set on fire...
Clint Eastwood I've never met a genius. A...
Thomas A. Edison Genius is one percent inspiration...
Thomas A. Edison His genius he was quite...
Albert Einstein Any fool can make things...
Albert Einstein Any intelligent fool can make...
Albert Einstein The difference between stupidity and...
George Eliot You may try but you can...
George Eliot Genius at first is little more...
Havelock Ellis Every man of genius sees the...
Ethan Embry The first Matrix genius, the...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Common sense is genius dressed...
Ralph Waldo Emerson The man of genius inspires us...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Genius always finds itself a...
Ralph Waldo Emerson When nature has work to be...
Ralph Waldo Emerson But genius is the power to...
Euripides The lucky person passes for a...
Bruce Feirstein The distance between insanity and...
Federico Fellini Nietzsche claimed that his genius...
F. Scott Fitzgerald Genius is the ability to put...
F. Scott Fitzgerald Genius goes around the world...
Edward Fitzgerald Taste is the feminine of...
Janet Flanner Genius is immediate, but talent...
Gustave Flaubert Judge the goodness of a book...
Peter Fonda I truly miss the genius of...
Margot Fonteyn Genius is another word for...
E. M. Forster The historian must have some...
Lukas Foss To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities...
Lukas Foss Anybody can put things together...
John W. Foster One of the strongest characteristics...
Benjamin Franklin Genius without education is like...
Robert Fripp If a professional musician in...
R. Buckminster Fuller Everyone is born a genius, but...
Margaret Fuller The especial genius of women I...
R. Buckminster Fuller I'm not a genius. I'm just...
Rich Galen You don't have to be a...
Marcus Garvey God and Nature first made us...
Jose Ortega y Gasset Better beware of notions like...
Edward Gibbon Conversation enriches the understanding, but...
Allen Ginsberg My own experience is that a...
Todd Gitlin The genius of the economic...
Max Gluckman A science is any discipline in...
William Godwin Learning is the ally, not the...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whatever you can do, or dream...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe First and last, what is...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Common sense is the genius of...
Oliver Goldsmith Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain...
Samuel Goldwyn Give me a smart idiot over...
Edmond de Goncourt Genius is the talent of a...
Paul Goodman It takes application, a fine...
Phil Gramm The genius of the American...
Hugh Grant But I just know from...
Robert Graves Genius not only diagnoses the...
Thomas Gray Commerce changes the fate and...
Franz Grillparzer Genius unrefined resembles a flash...
George Grosz The cult of individuality and...
Paul Harris There is nothing in the genius...
Juliana Hatfield David Ortiz is a genius. He's...
B. R. Hayden Nothing is so envied as genius...
Benjamin Haydon Genius is nothing more than...
William Hazlitt If we wish to know the...
William Hazlitt Genius, like humanity, rusts for...
William Hazlitt People of genius do not excel...
William Hazlitt Rules and models destroy genius...
William Hazlitt Dandyism is a variety of...
Francis Herbert Hedge Talent is a faculty that is...
Heinrich Heine Great genius takes shape by...
Claude Adrien Helvetius Genius is nothing but continued...
Robert Henri Genius is not a possession of...
Paris Hilton It will work. I am a...
Heinrich Himmler All of us, who are members...
Adolf Hitler The leader of genius must have...
E. T. A. Hoffmann Is it not in the most...
J. G. Holland Nature is the master of...
Oliver Wendell Holmes The world is always ready to...
Bell Hooks Yesterday I was thinking about...
Anthony Hope Unless you are a genius, it...
Anthony Hope Unless one is a genius, it...
Horace Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals...
Horace A host is like a general...
Elbert Hubbard Genius may have its limitations...
Robert Hughes Popular in our time, unpopular...
Victor Hugo Genius is a promontory jutting...
Victor Hugo There is a sacred horror about...
Victor Hugo Genius: the superhuman in man.
Victor Hugo The man who does not know...
Victor Hugo Taste is the common sense of...
Aldous Huxley The secret of genius is to...
Robert Green Ingersoll In the republic of mediocrity...
Washington Irving Rising genius always shoots out...
Holbrook Jackson Genius is initiative on fire.
William James Genius... means little more than...
William James The essence of genius is to...
Samuel Johnson A man of genius has been...
Lyndon B. Johnson It is the genius of our...
Diana Wynne Jones It's a lucky child that knows...
Diana Wynne Jones I do feel very strongly that...
Diana Wynne Jones And indeed if you think you're...
Stanley Jordan Genius is a word too often...
Joseph Joubert Genius begins great works; labor...
James Joyce A man of genius makes no...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. The genius of impeachment lay...
Carl Jung Sometimes, indeed, there is such...
Kato Kaelin The media works in sound bites...
Harvey Keitel Then I heard this genius...
Frank B. Kellogg If we will maintain our hope...
Persis Khambatta Gene Roddenberry was a genius.
Dorothy Kilgallen Doorman - a genius who can...
Sally Kirkland She was a genius, my mother...
Nigel Kneale The only folk I can judge...
Arthur Koestler The principle mark of genius...
Kathe Kollwitz Genius can probably run on...
Fritz Kreisler Genius is an overused word...
Akira Kurosawa Man is a genius when he...
Joseph Lancaster I was induced to establish...
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Taste is the fundamental quality...
Johann Kaspar Lavater Who makes quick use of the...
Johann Kaspar Lavater He who seldom speaks, and with...
Johann Kaspar Lavater Neatness begets order; but from...
Johann Kaspar Lavater Who in the same given time...
Jude Law When you step back and watch...
Irving Layton I am a genius who has...
Hugh Leonard The problem with Ireland is...
David Letterman There is no off position on...
Oscar Levant There is a fine line between...
Oscar Levant There's a fine line between...
George H. Lewes Many a genius has been slow...
George H. Lewes Genius is rarely able to give...
Joe E. Lewis Adlai Stevenson has a genius...
Joseph Lewis The burning of an author's...
Jerry Lewis People hate me because I am...
Georg C. Lichtenberg Everyone is a genius at least...
Georg C. Lichtenberg It is in the gift for...
Georg C. Lichtenberg There are people who possess...
Rush Limbaugh Being stuck is a position few...
Abraham Lincoln Towering genius disdains a beaten...
Mary Todd Lincoln My evil genius Procrastination has...
Charles de Lint I think you're all mad. But...
Walter Lippmann The genius of a good leader...
Walter Lippmann Industry is a better horse to...
James Lipton Olivier was another case of a...
James Lipton The definition of genius, really...
Dave Lombardo Mike Patton is a genius... It...
Cesare Lombroso Genius is one of the many...
Cesare Lombroso Good sense travels on the well...
Cesare Lombroso The appearance of a single...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Men of genius are often dull...
David Low Churchill was one of the few...
James Russell Lowell It is the privilege of genius...
James Russell Lowell Freedom is the only law which...
Rich Lowry Clinton's fakery was so deft...
Robert Lynd Every man of genius is...
Robert Bulwer-Lytton Talent does what it can...
Robert Bulwer-Lytton Genius does what it must, and...
Robert Bulwer-Lytton Enthusiasm is the genius of...
Robert Bulwer-Lytton Every man who observes vigilantly...
Thomas B. Macaulay We hold that the most...
Mary MacLane Genius of a kind has always...
Mary MacLane I am a genius. Then it...
Mary MacLane You may think me crude, and...
James Madison The capacity of the female...
Andre Malraux Genius is not perfected, it is...
Garry Marshall When I edit, I'm not from...
Olivier Martinez And I think it is the...
Guy de Maupassant The simplest of women are...
Bryant H. McGill Genius is always accompanied by...
Michelangelo Genius is eternal patience.
John Stuart Mill Eccentricity has always abounded when...
John Stuart Mill The amount of eccentricity in...
Donald G. Mitchell There is no genius in life...
William Henry Moody It is always well to get...
Hannah More Genius without religion is only...
Christopher Morley No one appreciates the very...
Marston Morse But mathematics is the sister...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Neither a lofty degree of...
Brittany Murphy I think they should take...
W. H. Murray I have learned a deep respect...
Vladimir Nabokov Genius is an African who...
Vladimir Nabokov I think like a genius, I...
Vladimir Nabokov It's a pity one can't imagine...
Jack Nance All of a sudden, those few...
Gamal Abdel Nasser The genius of you Americans is...
Simon Newcomb If my impressions are correct...
John Henry Newman In this world no one rules...
Randy Newman I like the idea of taking...
John George Nicolay The meetings of the legislature...
David Ogilvy There are very few men of...
David Ogilvy First, make yourself a reputation...
Anna Pavlova No one can arrive from being...
Anna Pavlova God gives talent. Work transforms...
Charles Peguy Love is rarer than genius...
Charles Peguy Short of genius a rich man...
Pablo Picasso Every positive value has its...
Pablo Picasso What might be taken for a...
Pablo Picasso The genius of Einstein leads...
Albert Pike Almost all the noblest things...
Edgar Allan Poe The true genius shudders at...
Amy Poehler I also think if you're an...
Alexander Pope Genius creates, and taste preserves...
Alexander Pope One science only will one...
Ezra Pound Genius... is the capacity to...
Ezra Pound A man of genius has a...
Terry Pratchett Genius is always allowed some...
J. B. Priestley If you are a genius, you'll...
J. B. Priestley There are plenty of clever...
Mario Puzo Like many businessmen of genius...
Robert Quillen If there be anything that can...
Marcus Fabius Quintilian It seldom happens that a...
Michael Rapaport Only a genius can play a...
Man Ray One of the satisfactions of a...
Joshua Reynolds Could we teach taste or genius...
Arthur Rimbaud Genius is the recovery of...
Dennis Ritchie UNIX is basically a simple...
Tony Robbins Passion is the genesis of...
Knute Rockne We can all be geniuses because...
Auguste Rodin The modes of expression of men...
Hugh Trevor-Roper The function of a genius is...
Mark Rydell No one turns down a film...
George Saintsbury But at the time when he...
George Sand Simplicity is the most difficult...
Carl Sandburg A book is never a masterpiece...
Margaret E. Sangster Creative genius is a divinely...
Pablo de Sarasate For 37 years I've practiced 14...
May Sarton Don't forget that compared to...
Friedrich Schiller Every true genius is bound to...
Friedrich Von Schlegel There is no self-knowledge but...
Friedrich Von Schlegel Every complete man has his...
Friedrich Von Schlegel Reason is mechanical, wit chemical...
Arthur Schopenhauer Talent hits a target no one...
Robert Schumann Talent works, genius creates.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Genius always gives its best...
Lucius Annaeus Seneca There is no great genius...
Fulton J. Sheen Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity...
Henryk Sienkiewicz This homage has been rendered...
William Gilmore Simms He who would acquire fame must...
William Gilmore Simms The dread of criticism is the...
William Gilmore Simms Genius is the very eye of...
Alexander Smith The world is not so much...
John Philip Sousa Governmental aid is a drawback...
Al Spalding The genius of our institutions...
Anna Garlin Spencer The failure of women to...
Anna Garlin Spencer Can a woman become a genius...
Edmund Spenser The poets' scrolls will outlive...
Madame de Stael Innocence in genius, and candor...
Madame de Stael Genius is essentially creative; it...
Gertrude Stein It takes a lot of time...
George Steiner The ordinary man casts a...
Stendhal The man of genius is he...
Alexander Hamilton Stephens All the genius I have lies...
Isaac Stern A man possesses talent; genius...
Ben Stiller Jim Carrey, a comic genius...
Lytton Strachey The genius of the French...
Lytton Strachey In sheer genius Pascal ranks...
Lytton Strachey During this earlier period of...
Igor Stravinsky I know that the twelve notes...
Matthew Sweet I figured if the plane goes...
Jonathan Swift When a true genius appears...
Jonathan Swift When a true genius appears in...
Leo Szilard I'm all in favor of the...
Antonio Tabucchi But I don't think I have...
Joe Theismann Nobody in football should be...
Henry David Thoreau What is called genius is the...
Henry David Thoreau Nature is full of genius, full...
Henry David Thoreau The Artist is he who detects...
Henry David Thoreau I was more independent than...
Alexis de Tocqueville The genius of democracies is...
Mel Torme Buddy Rich is one of a...
Herbert Beerbohm Tree Every man is a potential...
Stanley Tucci I mean, Scorsese's a genius...
Lao Tzu To see things in the seed...
Edgard Varese Everyone is born with genius...
Giorgio Vasari Men of genius sometimes accomplish...
Giorgio Vasari In our own time it has...
Gore Vidal The genius of our ruling class...
Gore Vidal Andy Warhol is the only genius...
Leonardo da Vinci Men of lofty genius when they...
Stephen Vizinczey The truth is that our race...
Rufus Wainwright Everything I do, I feel is...
An Wang Success is more a function of...
Bill Watterson Genius is never understood in...
Simone Weil Real genius is nothing else...
Otto Weininger All genius is a conquering of...
Otto Weininger The genius which runs to...
Lawrence Welk I have never been an innovator...
Orson Welles Everybody denies I am a genius...
Lisa Whelchel My job is to pay attention...
James Whistler I can't tell you if genius...
E. B. White Genius is more often found in...
E. B. White Genius is more often found in...
Alfred North Whitehead Common sense is genius in...
Walt Whitman The genius of the United...
Walt Whitman There is that indescribable freshness...
Oscar Wilde The public is wonderfully tolerant...
Oscar Wilde I put all my genius into...
Oscar Wilde Ridicule is the tribute paid...
Billy Wilder An audience is never wrong. An...
Bern Williams Talent is a flame. Genius is...
Edmund Wilson Real genius of moral insight...
Kathleen Winsor The only genius that's worth...
Tom Wolfe There has been a time on...
Virginia Woolf It seems as if an age...
John Wozniak He's a tremendous guy. And...
Steve Wozniak In some parts of life, like...
Chauncey Wright And we owe science to the...
Frances Wright How are men to be secured...
Walter Wriston The person who figures out how...
Peter York If beauty isn't genius it...
Michael York Mike gets to play four roles...
Rick Yune They shaved my head, eyebrows...
Peter Nivio Zarlenga First have being in your mind...


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