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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
If the poet is not a real genius, I do not know what a genius is.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Genius is its own passport, and has always been ready to change habitats until the natural one is found.
— Nikola Tesla
Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!' But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!' — Emil Zatopek
Unconditional lovingness, coupled with belieflessness, opens the door to unlimited creative genius.
— Maximus Freeman
Sometimes this genius goes dark and drowns in the bitter wells of his heart.
— Clemens Brentano
f fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
Me, wincing a little as the effects of the slushie worked its way through him. So? Awesome, right? I'm a genius, you can
— Shana Norris
We are the instruments of genius, yet more the rhythm and less the drum as each expanding beat arises.
— Heather K. O'Hara
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
To walk in the footsteps of the great, put on their shoes.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Genius had its rewards.
— Mario Puzo
There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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
Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.
— Tennessee Williams
Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.
— Hans Hofmann
Genius is finding the invisible link between things.
— Vladimir Nabokov
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
I'm supposed to be this musical genius and everything, but I can't really work the car seat that well.
— Kris Jenner
I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira.
— Mo Rocca
The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.
— Robert Ringer
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
— William James
All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity
— Martin E. Marty
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
My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
— Diane Setterfield
Genius is the ability to push one's limits beyond the limits each time, every endeavour.
— Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre
AB de Villiers is the definition of a Cricketing Genius
— Michael Vaughan
When people speak of the borderline between genius and madness, why is it so evident what they mean?
— James Gleick
He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.
— Mike Judge
A girl who is told repeatedly that she's no genius ends up winning an award for being one. The
— Angela Duckworth
True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genie
— Puzant Kevork Thomajan
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
On Lincoln: A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
— James Russell Lowell
Adversity is the midwife of genius
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Imagination is the life force of the genius code.
— Sean Patrick
There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
So we show up on her porch out of the blue, kidnap her, feed her frozen fruit and ask her on a date. Genius
— Aprilynne Pike
Sometimes the hardest thing about committing the perfect crime can be keeping your genius to yourself.
— Sarah Lacy
Genius has as many components as the mind itself.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.
— Ouida
Her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.
— Gertrude Atherton
If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth.
— Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
— Alan Greenspan
Misfortune is a stepping stone for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, treasure for the skillful man, an abyss for the feeble.
— Honore De Balzac
Conceit spoils the finest genius.
— Louisa May Alcott
Why have I not genius to start some new thought? Some thing that will surprise the world?
— John Adams
Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party
— William, Saroyan
Happy moments are the times to be stupid, not be genius!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
— Aldous Huxley
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.
— Isaac Stern
in Ovid, difficulty is what wakes up the genius (ingenium mala saepe movent),
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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
The greatest form of genius is that which isn't noticed.
— Scott Nicholson
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
For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.
— Dawn Powell
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
— William Hazlitt
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.
— Otto Weininger
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
— Nadine Gordimer
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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
Spring is the ultimate genius of the existence and the utter ladder of the lovers ascending to the infinity.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that you can only tinker with the natural order of things for so long before nature gets the last laugh.
— Chris Dietzel
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
— James Russell Lowell
Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
— Margaret Fuller
The source of genius is imagination alone.
— Eugene Delacroix
What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.
— James M. Barrie
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
— Irving Layton
Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.
— Isaac D'Israeli
Later these tales would be retold and embellished by the genius of Mallory, Spenser, and Tennyson.
— Winston S. Churchill
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.
— Voltaire
The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.
— Billy Wilder
decision. I was tired of his jealousy, sick of his belief that the only permissible topic of conversation was his unrecognized genius.
— Francine Prose
Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
— Robert Blair