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Genius...has been defined as a supreme capacity for taking trouble...It might be more fitly described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds and keeping them therein so long as the genius remains.

— Samuel Butler (novelist) genius

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

— John Dryden genius

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky genius

The fact that somewereat does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at , they laughed at , they laughed at the . But they also laughed atthe .

— Carl Sagan genius

There are no more geniuses, only critics.

— Schoenberg genius

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labour in it, but they labour in it because they excel.

— William Hazlitt genius

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

— Henri Frederic Amiel genius

Very first thing in the morning, I spew some rough genius directly on to the laptop. Then I have coffee and rewrite for three hours.

— Kevin Barry genius

So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.

— Bonnie Bassler genius

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

— Roberto Benigni genius

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

— Charles Bukowski genius

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

— Edward G. Bulwer Lytton genius

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

— Sid Caesar genius

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.

— Alex Cox genius

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

— Isaac DIsraeli genius

I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.

— Claire Danes genius

I think 'Pan's Labyrinth' is genius.

— Joe Dante genius

I'm pretty handy in the kitchen. But my wife's the real genius.

— Chris Diamantopoulos genius

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

— Paul Eldridge genius

The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.

— Ethan Embry genius

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

— Federico Fellini genius

Taste is the feminine of genius.

— Edward Fitzgerald genius

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

— Ian Fleming genius

You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.

— Rich Galen genius

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

— George Gershwin genius

My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.

— David Hanson genius

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

— Anthony Hope genius

I'm a genius. I'm like Prince.

— Josh Hopkins genius

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

— Horace genius

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

— George Henry Lewes genius

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

— Anna Pavlova genius

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

— Arthur Schopenhauer genius

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

— Fulton J Sheen genius

I don’t want to be a genius

— I have enough problems just trying to be a man genius

Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

— William James genius

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

— Benjamin Disraeli genius

Never think that Gods delays are Gods denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

— Georges Louis Leclerc genius

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

— Discworld genius

The genius thing that we did was, we didnt give up.

— Jay-Z genius

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.Alan Perlis, Epigrams in Programming.

— Simplicity genius

Lt. Brutus: Hes a genius, huh?David Langley: Thats what they tell me.Lt. Brutus: Well, he looks like a fruit cake to me.

— Bean 1997 genius

Doing easily what others find it difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Journal

— Genius genius

Oscar: Look, it doesnt take a genius to know that every organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesnt have two presidents. A boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be without the popes?

— The Office U.S. TV series genius

Kim: An hour. In and out. Done. Boobs. Genius.

— Curb Your Enthusiasm TV Series 2000– genius

Tony: Anyone, and I mean anyone, know when the air conditioner is getting fixed? What about the name of the genius who invented windows that dont open? Like, what are we on - a space ship? Windows should open!

— NCIS season 2 genius

The Genius: From the Meadowlands Arena to the multitudes beyond, I, The Genius, full of glory and renown

— SummerSlam genius

Variant translation: The genius of our century — centuries rarely produce a genius. Look at this bad luck of ours, that the great genius of our era was granted to the Turkish nation.

— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk genius

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

— Benjamin Haydon genius

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

— Josh Billings genius

Everyone is born a genius.

— R. Buckminster Fuller genius

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