Genius Quotes

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In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring. — Jules Renard
If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know… — Jonathan Swift
Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul. — Edwin Percy Whipple
Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet… — Charles Caleb Colton
Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent. — Emile M. Cioran
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French. — Madeleine Albright
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear. — Isaac D'Israeli
To genius life never grows commonplace. — James Russell Lowell
No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius. — Samuel Johnson
Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice. — George Santayana
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and… — Margot Asquith
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace. — Pablo Picasso
True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down. — Oliver Goldsmith
If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no… — Walter Savage Landor
The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the… — Thomas Love Peacock
The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals. — Jacques Barzun
If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive. — Ian Fleming
I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to… — Paula Poundstone
The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag… — Cyril Connolly
The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind.… — Ayn Rand
It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius. — Roger Ebert

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