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Genius is only gifted to the few who are ready to go beyond their comfort-zones. Those who are not satisfied only with the theoretical ideologies.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

Genius is perseverence in disguise.

– Mike NewlinRate it:

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

– Denis DiderotRate it:

Genius is sorrow's child.

– John AdamsRate it:

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

– William Somerset MaughamRate it:

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.

– Elbert HubbardRate it:

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.

– F. Scott FitzgeraldRate it:

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

– F ScottRate it:

Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von SchlegelRate it:

Genius knows the comedy is all about being serious whereas others think that doing comedy and serious roles in movies are two different wide apart poles.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

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

– Elbert HubbardRate it:

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

– William JamesRate it:

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.

– Samuel ButlerRate it:

Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.

– L. B. WaltonRate it:

Genius only means being hardworking all one's life.

– MendeleyevRate it:

Genius sits in a glass house -- but in an unbreakable one --conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck. (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. New art, it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in ism.)

– Paul KleeRate it:

Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

– Henry Ward BeecherRate it:

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

– Margaret FullerRate it:

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

– Benjamin FranklinRate it:

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

– Hannah MoreRate it:

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

– Hannah MoreRate it:

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

– Edward DahlbergRate it:

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

– Wystan Hugh AudenRate it:

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