Top Genius Quotes
The lucky person passes for a genius.
Euripides
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
John Dryden
Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.
Harvey Keitel
Ron Chernow 
Stendhal 
Arthur Rimbaud 
J. G. Ballard 
Lytton Strachey 
Gertrude Stein 
Benjamin Disraeli 
Edward Gibbon 
Alexander Pope All Genius Quotes
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison 
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
Hannah Cowley
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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.
Paul Harris
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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Charles Peguy
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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
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I think they should take everyone who works for The National Enquirer and the Star, and everyone who works for Us Weekly, and put them all to work looking for terrorists. I think they would find the terrorists. All of them. It would be genius!
Brittany Murphy
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant
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