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I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."
One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Oh, I'm impressed with Lorraine Hansberry. She was a genius at whose feet I could sit.
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart.
The term 'genius' is inapplicable to anyone in this game. A genius is Norman Einstein.
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.
I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.
Genius is the ability to see the self-evident where the rest of the world turns blind.
The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.
My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
Greatness is the reward for genius... only a few can be great, the rest are plain good.
If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?
A sniper is like a genius - it’s not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.
Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.
My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.
Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.
Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.
Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.
The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.
Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.
The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.
His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius.
A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.