We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.
~ Peter Thiel
In real estate, you make 10% of your money because you're a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave.
~ Jeff Greene
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
~ Charlie Chaplin
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
~ Cesare Lombroso
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
~ Pablo Picasso
I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of patriotism can crush.
~ Joseph P. Bradley
In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality.
~ Martin Jacques
Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.
~ Luca Guadagnino
The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.
~ Clive Thompson
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
~ Warren Beatty
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
~ Louis Aragon
The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
~ Nancy Allen
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
~ Marcus Aurelius
There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.
~ William Godwin
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
~ William Hazlitt
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
~ Charles Péguy
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
~ Gore Vidal
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
~ Thomas A. Edison
To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
~ Minna Antrim
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
~ Franz Grillparzer
How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.
~ Robert Gottlieb
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
~ Italo Calvino
You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.
~ Michael Dell
The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.
~ James Fenton
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
~ B. R. Hayden
No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.
~ Damien Hirst
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
~ James Russell Lowell
Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
~ Tabatha Coffey
