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Man is a genius when he is dreaming. (Quote by - Akira Kurosawa)

The failure of woman to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it n (Quote by - Anna Garlin Spencer)

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and never can be taught. (Quote by - John Dryden)

He is like many other geniuses, a greater friend to the bottle, than the bottle is to him. (Quote by - William Lyon MacKenzie)

Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it (Quote by - Pablo Casals)

Genius Borrows nobly. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. (Quote by - William James)

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. (Quote by - Mary Todd Lincoln)

Talent does whatever it wants to do.... Genius does only what it can. (Quote by - Eugene Delacroix)

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)

Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. (Quote by - Aristotle)

In the old days one merely gawked at these unfortunates. Donahue's genius is to get them to talk. (Quote by - Charles Krauthammer)

Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed. (Quote by - Walter Russell)

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)

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 (Quote by - Antonin Artaud)

We feed on genius; great men exist that there might be greater men. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)

Genius is eternal patience. (Quote by - Michelangelo)

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. (Quote by - Isaac D'Israeli)

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds (Quote by - David Hume)

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)

Since when was genius found respectable? (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

We are opposites - he is very methodical and is a computer genius. I am not. Between my Dyslexia and ADHD, it was a miracle that I made it through school at all. (Quote by - Brian Walker)

A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero (Quote by - Frank Gelett Burgess)

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