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Giving calls for genius.
— Ovid
Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies genius and magic.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!' But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!' — Emil Zatopek
Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might.
— Jonah Winter
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
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
— Tim Minchin
Disorder is more socially accepted than genius.
— Toba Beta
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
Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.
— Anton Ehrenzweig
Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.
— Charles Churchill
Questioning a genius with logic limits his imagination.
— Vasilios Karpos
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 their own saviors.
— Anthony O'Neill
I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him.
— Walter Russell
A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.
— Mary MacLane
My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
— Diane Setterfield
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
He's a smart guy, but I think I'm a genius.
— Nonito Donaire
No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.
— Stephen Hawking
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
Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
— Elbert Hubbard
I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery! — E.A. Bucchianeri
Her mom had become some sort of a genius double agent since she hooked up with Richie. It was like she was keeping them all alive behind his back.
— Rainbow Rowell
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
I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.
— Jonathan Brandis
A diamond is just another stone to one who is ignorant of its value.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.
— Michael Dell
Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.
— Otto Weininger
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
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
It is always well to get near to men of genius.
— William Henry Moody
Gene Roddenberry was a genius.
— Persis Khambatta
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
The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.
— Leigh Hunt
Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.
— Josh Billings
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
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
Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses
— Walter Russell
Spring is the ultimate genius of the existence and the utter ladder of the lovers ascending to the infinity.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.
— Jez Butterworth
T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.
— Betty Buckley
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
— Honore De Balzac
True understanding is the spur of genius
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
— Donatella Versace
Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!
— Alexander Kotov
Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.
— Jason Calacanis
Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.
— Albert Einstein
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
— George Bernard Shaw
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
— Friedrich Schiller
That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Chris Brown is a star. He's a genius. Anybody should want to work with him. He makes hits.
— Juicy J
It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it.
— Jacques Pierre Brissot
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
— Winston Churchill
For style beyond the genius never dares.
— Petrarch
Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him this leads to spiritual petrification. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing.
— Oliver Jackson-Cohen
You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Hollandaise, I would like to pour over my head and just rub all over myself. Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs.
— Wylie Dufresne
Would I use the word 'genius' to describe myself? No. 'Alive?' Perhaps. 'Befuddled?' Certainly.
— Sean Gibson
People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.
— Alexander Hamilton
There's an old saying," Buck said. "A hundred things can go wrong in a holdup, and if you can think of fifty of them you're a damn genius.
— James Carlos Blake
Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.
— Thomas M. Disch
Genius is insanity right up until it works.
— Forrest Griffin
All geniuses are not successful just like all successful people are not geniuses. I would rather be successful than a genius.
— Majid Kazmi
Genius speaks only to genius.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
Great. So he's a genius. Fifty points for Ivanclaw.
— Margaret Stohl
