Genius Quotes

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Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them. — Joseph Joubert
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education. — John Buchan
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty. — Denis Diderot
No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or… — Al-Waleed bin Talal
Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men… — Phyllis McGinley
There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to… — James Bryant Conant
... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be. — Robert Bly
What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity, his particular inimitable… — Alfred Kazin
It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same… — Antonin Artaud
Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet. — Louis Aragon
Even genius is tied to profit. — Pindar
Ricky Gervais is a genius. — Oscar Nunez
If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult. — Martine McCutcheon
Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he's a genius. — Tracy Morgan
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals. — John Noble
A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going. What… — Tom Harpur
My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing… — Meshell Ndegeocello
You don't disrupt genius at work. — Dylan O'Brien
Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I… — Louise Penny
Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages. — Bob Packwood
There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know. — Mackenzie Phillips
When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots. — Tom Perrotta
Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted… — Jacques Pepin
Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected… — Jimmy Reid
The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western… — Toru Takemitsu

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