Genius Quotes

Albert Einstein was a genius and so were Thomas Alva Edison and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Now what set these people apart from the rest and made them achieve what they did? What made them make mortal men, look like just that, mortal men? It’s pretty simple really. It’s nothing but a stroke of natural genius that each and every one of these names were blessed with that made them summit at unattainable heights in their lifetime. Read on to for an unrestricted access to a quite a number of quotations and sayings on masterminds!

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
Matthew McConaughey

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It's called 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius' by Dave Eggers. It is absolutely everything the title implies. It's the greatest book I've ever.
Work
Justin Hartley

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There is no off position on the genius switch.
David Letterman

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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
Childhood
Charles Baudelaire

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Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Beauty
Marilyn Monroe

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'E.T.' depended absolutely on the concept of cinema, and I think that Steven Spielberg, who I'm very fond of, is a genius.
Cinema
Richard Attenborough

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I'm clearly not a major legal genius.
John F. Kennedy Jr.

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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Positivity Value
Pablo Picasso

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Genius is never understood in its own time.
Time
Bill Watterson

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Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me.
Cool
Nicolas Cage

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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Greatness
Charlie Chaplin

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It will work. I am a marketing genius.
Work
Paris Hilton

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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Greatness
Joseph Addison

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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Talent World
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
Vladimir Nabokov

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When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.
People
Jude Law

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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.
Courage Society Time
John Stuart Mill

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What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Power Individuality
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Discussion
Christopher Morley

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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Silence
Edgar Allan Poe

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Adversity
Horace

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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!
Work
Brittany Murphy

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Genius is patience.
Patience
Isaac Newton

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Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.
Cinema
Richard Attenborough

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I'm really into 'Veep.' I think that the showrunner Armando Iannucci is a genius.
Alexander Skarsgard

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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
Differences Unity Talent
William Butler Yeats

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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
Charles Bukowski

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Jennifer Aniston is a genius.
Emma Roberts

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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
Washington Irving

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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
Poverty Talent
Quentin Crisp

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Amy Poehler, Amy Sedaris - they're both genius.
Paul Rudd

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Greatness Intelligence Psychosis
Aristotle

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Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
Mel Brooks

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Since when was genius found respectable?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Nothing Humbleness
Simone Weil

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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Intelligence
Charles Bukowski

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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Things
Lao Tzu

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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.
People
Walt Whitman

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Imagination Dreams
Vladimir Nabokov

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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Education
Benjamin Franklin

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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Nothing Time
Gertrude Stein

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The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Greatness Words
Alexis de Tocqueville

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham Lincoln

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Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
John Dryden

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Genius is sorrow's child.
Sadness
John Adams

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I always thought what made 'Beetlejuice' look so great was because it looked like some genius kid made it in his basement.
Greatness
Michael Keaton

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Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.
Photography Life
Camille Paglia

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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Restrictions
Elbert Hubbard

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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.
Clint Eastwood

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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Work
Leonardo da Vinci

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Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
Time Action
John Dryden

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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.
Mind
Marilyn Manson

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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James

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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Society
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It's not gas. It's not coal. It's the genius of our children.
Country Children
Cory Booker

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
Freedom Law
James Russell Lowell

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso

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Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
Learning Greatness
Joseph Addison

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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.
Science Mind
James Madison

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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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I've never met Lena Dunham, but I'm such a huge fan - I think she's a crazy genius.
Jonathan Groff

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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson

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In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.
School
Sean Penn

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Taste is the common sense of genius.
Taste
Victor Hugo

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There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius - there's a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.
Greatness Men
Jordan Peterson

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I do not consider myself a literal genius.
Lil Wayne

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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
Age Work Hard Work
Virginia Woolf

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I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren't true. Every impressive achievement is not genius.
Achievement
Ron Howard

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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Power
Walt Whitman

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What I really think about Banksy is I think he's a genius; he's a great artist, and I like his stuff. But he's got to accept it if, from time to time, someone will need to paint over his work.
Greatness Time Work
Boris Johnson

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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
Life Rest
James Russell Lowell

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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Understanding Imagination
Marcus Aurelius

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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Motivation Life Health
Henry David Thoreau

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The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.
Kanye West

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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Talent
Carl Jung

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Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.
Perfection Work
Leonardo da Vinci

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What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Greatness Childhood
Pablo Picasso

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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Excitement Manufacturing
Benjamin Disraeli

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I'm a big fan of '30 Rock,' which I think is the most genius show on television.
Anna Kendrick

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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
Greatness Discipline
George Eliot

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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Talent
Carl Sandburg

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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Intelligence
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Horace

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One of the big surprises for me about Einstein was... that he wasn't this big introvert; he was more like a novelist or a painter. It's amazing how close society came to not benefiting from Albert Einstein's genius.
Society
Ron Howard

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I'm no genius.
Lou Holtz

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Oh, I think Janie Bryant is a genius. I mean, I think she changed menswear almost single-handedly with what she did on 'Mad Men.'
Men
Matt Bomer

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I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius.
Money Music
Prince

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We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.
Women Work
Pope Francis

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I'm a devotee of Stephen Sondheim. I think he's a genius.
Kenneth Branagh

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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Psychosis
Aristotle

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Our nation was not founded because we all looked alike, or prayed alike, or descended from the same family tree. But our founders, in their genius, in this, the oldest constitutional democracy, put forth on this earth the idea that all are created equal; that we all have inalienable rights.
Family Democracy Tree
Cory Booker

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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
Nothing
Oscar Wilde

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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo

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I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.
Greatness Personality World
Anthony Hopkins

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You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
George Eliot

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I'm no genius, but I'm real smart in one area - I picked the right mate.
Right
Rob Lowe

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Ronald Isley is a musical genius.
R. Kelly

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This world has a way of trying to homogenize you. Trying to sanitize you. Trying to scrub you of your unique divine genius. This world wants to make you regular.
World
Cory Booker

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If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of the most genius, simplistic but incredibly sophisticated notion of what it was. The evolution of that was just fantastic.
Ridley Scott

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No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.
Stephen Hawking

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