America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes (Quote by - Ayn Rand)

The more one studies these scores, the more indisputable one finds their evidences of authentic genius, and the more captivated one remains. (Quote by - Roger Sessions)

To see things in the seed, that is genius. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. (Quote by - Joey Lauren Adams)

For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius (Quote by - Pablo de Sarasate)

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent. (Quote by - J. B. Priestley)

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. (Quote by - Oscar Levant)

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. (Quote by - John Watson Foster)

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Mailer is a genius. He's the one I most connect with in terms of fiction his range is so wide. That's the sort of boldness I aspire to. (Quote by - Bret Easton Ellis)

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius. (Quote by - Otto Weininger)

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)

When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. (Quote by - Charlie Chaplin)

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius--the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. (Quote by - Isaac D'Israeli)