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PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration. — Albert Einstein

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. — Charlie Chaplin

Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!'
But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!' — Emil Zatopek

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Sometimes this genius goes dark and drowns in the bitter wells of his heart. — Clemens Brentano

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more. — Pierre Beaumarchais

To walk in the footsteps of the great, put on their shoes. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Genius had its rewards. — Mario Puzo

The step between genius and insanity is very short. — Albert Einstein

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone De Beauvoir

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity. — Baruch Spinoza

The genius of evolution lies in the dynamic tension between optimism and pessimism continually correcting each other. — Martin E.P. Seligman

Great triumphs of engineering genius - the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail - ... are rather invention than engineering proper. — Arthur Mellen Wellington

Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy, — Mirabeau B. Lamar

I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy. — David Foster Wallace

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn. — Henri Bergson

Pain jabbed Janco where the lower half of his right ear used to be. He rubbed the scar. "Now, I'm not a genius - "
"Got that right," Ari mumbled. — Maria V. Snyder

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark. — William James

All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity — Martin E. Marty

Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it. — Eric Weiner

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen. — Diane Setterfield

Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time. — Viktor E. Frankl

The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual. — Ronald Reagan

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius. — Jason Calacanis

Attacking genius and passion as immoral , the ? cries "how dare they?" and answers with its own question ... — Christopher Dutton

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions. — Pope Francis

Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness. — Desmond Seward

Any self-realized being has access to the dynamic genius which nature gives all beings. — Bryant McGill

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. — Benjamin Franklin

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. — Otto Weininger

The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos. — Edward Young

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life. — Friedrich Schiller

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. — Maude Adams

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time! — Alexander Kotov

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time. — Donatella Versace

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. — Nadine Gordimer

Talent only gives an imperfect image--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of Genius remain unruffled. — Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius. — Joseph Haydn

Today's ideal worker is not the anonymous shift worker but the enlightened genius who never stops working. — Miya Tokumitsu

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it. — Robert Musil

The fine line between genius and madness is a punch line. Duck, you idiot! — Brian Spellman

Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently. — Joseph De Maistre

It's always darkest before you're blinded by the light — Josh Stern

The greatest form of genius is that which isn't noticed. — Scott Nicholson

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase. — Horace

We will have a new Taylor album in October. The record is genius. I can't wait for the fans to hear it. — Scott Borchetta

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world. — Dawn Powell

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. — Simone Weil

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party — William, Saroyan

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. — Aneurin Bevan

The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity. — Thomas Guthrie

The unrecognized genius-that's one old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius recognized too well? — Ayn Rand

That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail. — Ally Carter

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born. — David Brooks

That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it. — George Bernard Shaw

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. — Winston Churchill

Crap was not a bad word. It was the shortened name of the marketing genius of the best known flush toilet, John Crapper. Really. — Faith Hunter

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. — Charles Caleb Colton

'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written. — Patrick Fischler

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius. — Stephen Hawking

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. — Elbert Hubbard

I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,
Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery! — E.A. Bucchianeri

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine. — Arthur Schopenhauer

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work. — Alexander Hamilton

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius. — Leigh Hunt

For style beyond the genius never dares. — Petrarch

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton. — Mahatma Gandhi

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

Would I use the word 'genius' to describe myself? No. 'Alive?' Perhaps. 'Befuddled?' Certainly. — Sean Gibson

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. — Max Beerbohm

True understanding is the spur of genius — Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm convinced that Bach is the greatest genius who ever walked among us, and the Brandenburgs are what he wrote when he was happy. — Douglas Adams

Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall. — E. O. Wilson

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens. — Mikhail Tal

Spring is the ultimate genius of the existence and the utter ladder of the lovers ascending to the infinity. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well. — Kanye West

Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty. — Jack Vance

The qualities of creativity and genius are within you, awaiting your decision to match up with the power of intention. — Wayne Dyer

There are some cloudy days for the mind as well as for the world; and the man who has the most genius is twenty times a day in the clouds. — Laurent Angliviel De La Beaumelle

The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour. — David Luiz

I am the farthest thing from a computer genius. — Jonathan Brandis

Necessity is often the spur to genius. — Honore De Balzac

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself. — Henry David Thoreau

T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary. — Betty Buckley

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along. — Susan Orlean

To see things in the seed, that is genius. — Lao-Tzu

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people. — Phil Gramm

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him. — Jonathan Swift

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius. — Jez Butterworth

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. — Benjamin Disraeli

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. — John Boyle O'Reilly