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“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.”
William James
“Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
William James
“Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.”
Rush Limbaugh
“Genius is eternal patience.”
Michelangelo
“The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.”
James Madison
“Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.”
John Stuart Mill
“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.”
John Stuart Mill
“I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.”
Marilyn Manson
“President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!”
Mitt Romney
“Passion is the genesis of genius.”
Tony Robbins
“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.”
Francis Bacon
“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
Carl Sagan
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“It will work. I am a marketing genius.”
Paris Hilton
“When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.”
Jonathan Swift
“It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.”
Virginia Woolf
“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.”
Walt Whitman
“There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.”
Walt Whitman
“Genius is sorrow's child.”
John Adams
“Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.”
Paul Cezanne
“Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.”
George Gershwin
“Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.”
Elwyn Brooks White
