Always Quote by Jane Smiley

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

— Bryant H. McGill

“When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived.”

— Bryant McGill

Bill Walsh was a genius in many ways.

— Steve Young

Joe Wright is incredible and I'm a huge admirer of his work in general, but specifically his aesthetics and poeticism.

— Bryce Dallas Howard

I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is…

— Anthony Bourdain

With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and the course…

— Otto Weininger

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

— Anonymous

The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

— Frank X. Barron

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Genius is the ability to leave entirely out of sight our own interest, our willing, and our aims, and consequently to discard entirely our…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld

Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided…

— Hamilton Wright Mabie