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.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Walter Lippmann 
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
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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.
Martin Van Buren
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
Bernard Berenson
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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
Denis Diderot
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Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
Paul Cezanne
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I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler
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Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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