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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
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
A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
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
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.
There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
— Michel De Montaigne
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
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
Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy,
— Mirabeau B. Lamar
True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.
— Oliver Goldsmith
A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
— Tim Minchin
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
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
Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.
— Charles Churchill
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
— William James
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
Genius is never understood in its own time.
— Bill Watterson
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
— Arthur Rimbaud
A touch of genius is better than a punch of talent.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.
— Ronald Reagan
Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.
— Maude Adams
in Ovid, difficulty is what wakes up the genius (ingenium mala saepe movent),
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Boldness is a crucial element of genius.
— Horace Freeland Judson
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today's ideal worker is not the anonymous shift worker but the enlightened genius who never stops working.
— Miya Tokumitsu
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
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
— Benjamin Franklin
The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline.
— Henry David Thoreau
Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness.
— Desmond Seward
David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.
— Juliana Hatfield
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 probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
EACH OF US IS BORN INTO GENIUS. Sadly, most of us die amid mediocrity.
— Robin S. Sharma
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
— Simone Weil
The greatest form of genius is that which isn't noticed.
— Scott Nicholson
T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.
— Betty Buckley
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
Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.
— Thomas M. Disch
Genius is insanity right up until it works.
— Forrest Griffin
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
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
You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
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
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
That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
It is always well to get near to men of genius.
— William Henry Moody
Thinking you're a genius is death.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
There's a poster with Thomas Edison's quote: GENIUS IS 1 PERCENT INSPIRATION AND 99 PERCENT PERSPIRATION.
— Lauren Oliver
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
— William, Saroyan
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
A diamond is just another stone to one who is ignorant of its value.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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
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
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
— Elbert Hubbard
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
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
