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The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.
I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.
Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.
Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.
The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.
The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.
It's a great loss.[Carrie Fisher] was a comic genius, as far as I'm concerned.
Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.
Valkyrie: “You are such a moron.” Skulduggery: “Don't be jealous of my genius.
Most geniuses are just talented people who get up really early in the morning.
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.
Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.
Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.
Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.
Einstein used science to get laid. That guy is a genius. I've been using money.
Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease is not to live.
Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.
Aquarius[es] are social butterflies, humanitarians, geniuses: Einstein was one.
I'm a really, really, smart, multi-talented almost-genius, who's very annoying.
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.
Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.
A true calling is aimed at the genius qualities already set within each person.
You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.
Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.
... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.
Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.
Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.
Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.
Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.