Genius Quotes

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Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries. — Walker Percy
The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap. — John Burroughs
Sachin Tendulkar is a genius. I'm a mere mortal. — Brian Lara
Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both. — Emily Gould
Boldness has power, magic and genius in it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Talent borrows, genius steals! — Oscar Wilde
When friends and acquaintances are telling you that you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always… — Carl Icahn
Michael Jackson? He was something more (than one of my favorite entertainers), a true friend. He wasn't just a genius. Above all, he was a… — Kobe Bryant
How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it… — Michaela Angela Davis
An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination. — Kenneth Goldsmith
My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future. — Lisa Whelchel
I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a… — Christoph Waltz
I will write a book one day about how I feel about every aspect of Emily Stone. She's a full genius. She has found her… — Andrew Garfield
Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius. — Lupita Nyong'o
Fella’s a genius. Best ever by a distance in my life time. Never really saw Pele… Souness, Gullit, Venables and now Rooney agree Messi is… — Gary Lineker
I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused. — Ted McGinley
Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that… — Pharrell Williams
Each of us is born brilliant. Then we spend the rest of our lives having our brilliance buried by people, circumstances, and experiences. Eventually, we… — Simon T. Bailey
Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your… — Paulo Coelho
Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage with… — Matt Fraction
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping. — Virginia Woolf
Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius. — Sheila Heti
A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience — Tim Minchin

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