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Never expect any recognition herethe system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross. — Franz Grillparzer
PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.
— Albert Einstein
In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours.
— Constantin Stanislavski
Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
If the poet is not a real genius, I do not know what a genius is.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Genius is not a matter of intelligence, but of spirit; and we cannot speak accurately of the spirit in any language but music.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
— Louis Auchincloss
Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.
— Kobayashi Issa
He hasn't left his house in three years, he's not crazy, he's a genius; just tv and videogames twenty four-seven, I think he's my new hero ...
— John Corey Whaley
It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.
— Bill Hader
Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets.
— Russell D. Moore
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
He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom.Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
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
When the gods come among men, they are not known.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
— William Hazlitt
How somebody is different?? Not different but genius?? (Find the answer, that's my quiz for you... No, jokers it's to easy with jokers)
— Deyth Banger
A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.
— Mary MacLane
It's not my fault so much as my genius,
— Richelle Mead
My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
— Diane Setterfield
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
— Camille Paglia
Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic
— William Hazlitt
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius ... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
— William Godwin
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.
— Gore Vidal
Knowledge does not equate to intelligence. It is the application of knowledge that separates the genius from the fool.
— Niquenya D. Fulbright
Genius feels like an over extended Helium balloon about to burst, and everyone criticizes you for not having a conventional way of coping with it.
— Solange Nicole
In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?
— Adolf Hitler
The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius.
— Walter J. Phillips
The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.
— Robin Sharma
I don't know whether my husband is a genius or not, but he certainly has a dirty mind.
— Nora Barnacle
The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Genius is not only a what or a who, it is a where. It is grounded in a place every single time.
— Eric Weiner
But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sniper is like a genius - it's not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.
— Steve Aylett
If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth.
— Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
Why have I not genius to start some new thought? Some thing that will surprise the world?
— John Adams
Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.
— Louisa May Alcott
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
— J.B. Priestley
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
— William Gilmore Simms
I do not seek the mantle of genius. I am an appreciator, an observer, a preposition, and content in that, and that's me in a nutshell.
— Matthew Pearl
Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.
— Joshua Prince-Ramus
THE THING WAS, William had a kind of genius for not noticing what he didn't want to notice.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is
— Zinedine Zidane
The genius does not differ from others in their access to the light within, only in their confident acceptance of its natural outstreaming.
— Eric Butterworth
I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through ...
— Ted Turner
Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.
— Thomas A. Edison
The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.
— Voltaire
Happy moments are the times to be stupid, not be genius!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
All great enterprises are about logistics. Not genius or inspiration or flights of imagination, skill or cunning, but logistics.
— Tom McCarthy
I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.
— Brian Wilson
I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.
— Nick Cannon
Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.
— Charles Dickens
It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.
— Robert Musil
My genius from a boyHas fluttered like a bird within my heart;
But could not thus confined her power employ,
Impatient to depart. — George Moses Horton
It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.
— Joseph Heller
Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.
— Walter Isaacson
Today's ideal worker is not the anonymous shift worker but the enlightened genius who never stops working.
— Miya Tokumitsu
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
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
All geniuses are not successful just like all successful people are not geniuses. I would rather be successful than a genius.
— Majid Kazmi
Paradise is not something unique; there are so many paradises in the universe; Earth is one of them!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
— Arthur Koestler
The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.
— Winston Churchill
At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.
— Hugh Bonneville
Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.
— Henry David Thoreau
Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.
— Loren Eiseley
I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.
— Claire Danes
Could not decide whether he was the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world. It
— Virginia Woolf
Wanderlust. These are words that I associate with him now. Not genius. Not gifted. Extraordinary in any way.
— Abigail George
I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.
— Walter Isaacson
If you're not happy, just leave. Don't cheat. Doesn't take a genius to figure that shit out. - Kenji
— Tahereh Mafi
It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.
— Pat Conroy
You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.
— Bob Colacello
