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The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.
The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.
The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.
Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself.
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
As we each express our natural genius, we all elevate our world.
Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.
A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.
Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever.
You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.
The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius.
If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world.
Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.
He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.
Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.
Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
I don't like to say it, but I don't care, I'm a real-life genius.
Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.
Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.
Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.
Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.
Don't think of your goals - think FROM them. Tap into your genius.
We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.
The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.
It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.
No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.