Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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.
Taste is the feminine of genius.
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
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.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.