Genius

Genius does what it must and talent does what it can.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might.

Jonah Winter

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Franz Grillparzer

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

Charles Baudelaire

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

Eugene H. Peterson

An undiscovered genius has no value in the marketplace.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

Criss Jami

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

Minna Antrim

A genius masters the art of observation, and unites with the source of imagination to create advancements in the cause for human evolution.

T.F. Hodge

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Charlie Chaplin

Genius is in you, but like a seed, you determine whether it dies or grows.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Louisa May Alcott

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Bernard Williams

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

E. F. Schumacher

Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Wou...

Georges Cuvier

Skill is fine and genius is splendid but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

Sir Archibald Mclndoe

There's an old saying,' Buck said. 'A hundred things can go wrong in a holdup, and if you can think of fifty of them you're a damn genius.

James Carlos Blake

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Louis Aragon

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in...

Alphonse de Lamartine

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

Woody Guthrie