Genius is born--not paid.
- Oscar WildeThe public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- Oscar WildeRidicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
- Oscar WildeSince when was genius found respectable?
- Elizabeth Barrett BrowningNeither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
- Wolfgang Amadeus MozartI think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
- Vladimir NabokovOne of the most efficacious things we could do for the quality of living is to teach ourselves and one another not to fear, misunderstand, misidentify, minimize, or neglect genius, but to recognize and embrace it, within ourselves and in others.
- Vanna BontaGenius is of no country.
- Aaron McGheeGenius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
- Adam LeonardGenius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Abby AronowitzEveryone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
- Edgard VarèseThere`s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
- Oscar LevantGenius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
- Adrian EdmonsonMen of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
- Agnes DengHe was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
- Robertson DaviesBut the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl SaganGenius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
- Archie MassicotteGenius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Andy BellinI`m the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don`t have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
- BeckMediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.
- Barry AbramsonRidicule is the Burden of Genius.
- Andrew TitusWhat is genius, anyway, if it isn`t the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?
- Anne HoltonGreat spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert EinsteinThe distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
- Bruce FeirsteinTrue genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
- Winston ChurchillI have nothing to declare but my genius.
- Oscar WildePut your talent into your work, but your genius into your life
- Oscar WildeI have nothing to declare except my genius.
- Oscar WildeI put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
- Oscar WildeHunger is the handmaid of genius
- Mark TwainCommon sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
- George Bernard ShawThe most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor
- George Bernard ShawCommon sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
- Ralph Waldo EmersonMediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe
- Benjamin DisraeliJealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
- Fulton J. SheenMediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
- Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
- Eugene DelacroixGenius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.
- Kathe KollwitzIn the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous
- Robert Green Ingersoll