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Genius Quotes
"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."
168
"Genius lives only one storey above madness."
153
"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."
113
"Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."
105
"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
94
"Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them."
75
"The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it."
71
"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself."
71
"Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien."
68
"Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius."
67
"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."
67
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
64
"I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius."
62
"The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius."
61
"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them."
61
"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."
60
"I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."
60
"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something."
58
"Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60."
57
"I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject."
57
"Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit."
56
"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."
55
"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"
55
"It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and strange words. But the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars."
55
"There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people."
54
"The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius."
54
"Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline."
54
"I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius."
54
"Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be."
53
"Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe."
53
"I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring."
53
"As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around."
52
"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes."
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