Genius Quotes

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If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you… — Pablo Picasso
How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell… — Henry David Thoreau
Necessity is often the spur to genius. — Honore de Balzac
Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant not… — Kenny Smith
[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity. — David Hilbert
But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even the most foolish… — Stefan Zweig
I admire Johann Strauss a lot. I believe he was a genius of his time. — Andre Rieu
An idiot will do anything, no matter how stupid, because he is afraid of what everybody will think of him if he does nothing. A… — Tom Upton
No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man… — Knut Hamsun
You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it. — Ninette de Valois
It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown. — Iris Murdoch
A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a… — Marcel Proust
There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some… — Michael Eisner
Without passion, there is no genius. — Theodor Mommsen
[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men... succeeds nevertheless… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his… — Henry David Thoreau
Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors. — Jubal
If people are saying you’re wrong that’s probably a good sign that you’re a genius. — Steve Stoute
There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes… — Melissa Etheridge
The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules… — E. O. Wilson
Everyone thinks their baby is a genius. People find it delightfully refreshing when I tell them, My baby? Totally average. Like, 100 percent average. — Ryan Reynolds
Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever. — James Lileks
There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius. — Rutvik Oza
Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began. — Albert Einstein
I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius. — Jez Butterworth

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