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Quotes About Genius

Staff has a genius for sitting on its brains and coming up with perfect hindsight.
~ Leo Gordon
What is genius or courage without a heart?
~ Oliver Goldsmith
He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.
~ Tom Clancy, Executive Orders
Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius fifty per cent bloody fool.
~ Clement Attlee
Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.
~ Michael J. Gelb
The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.
~ Robert Aris Willmott
He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.
~ Stanislaw Ulam
You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.
~ Janet Suzman
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life's genius.
~ Janine Benyus
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.
~ Henry Ford
Yes, Charles is a genius, and he loves his manias. But Charles's disorder is the gift nobody wants to be given. There is no cure for it, no solution. Either Charles takes his medications and suffers, or he doesn't and everyone else does. It is colossally, sickeningly, definitively unfair.
~ Jenna Blum
All of us are mad in some way," Ian said. "I have a memory that won't let go of details. Hart is obsessed with politics and money. Cameron is a genius with horses, and Mac paints like a god. You find out details on your cases that others miss. You are obsessed with justice and getting everything you think is coming to you. We all have our madness. Mine is just the most obvious.
~ Jennifer Ashley
The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Without error there can be no brilliancy
~ Emanuel Lasker
COBWEBS. The spider as an artist    Has never been employed Though his surpassing merit    Is freely certified By every broom and Bridget    Throughout a Christian land. Neglected son of genius,    I take thee by the hand.
~ Emily Dickinson
Was genius a weed that sprang up anywhere, or did it need a particular habitat?
~ Emma Donoghue
A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.
~ Eoin Colfer
Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.
~ Eoin Colfer
Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it.
~ Eoin Colfer
gold is power-artemis fowl I liked the artemis fowl series because its about a boy genius
~ Eoin Colfer
That's what I thought. When I looked that human in the face. I figured he was either a genius or crazy." Artemis's cool eyes glared at them from the screen. "So which is it?" asked Foaly. "A genius or crazy?" Root grabbed his tri-barreled blaster from the gun rack. "What's the difference?
~ Eoin Colfer
Si gano, soy un genio. Si pierdo, estoy loco. Así es como se escribe la historia.
~ Eoin Colfer