Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Genius is childhood recalled at will.
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
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.
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.
A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.