True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

I wouldn’t use the word ‚scared‘ for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

Genius is patience.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Genius, when young, is divine.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

I don’t feel I’ve had a decent critic ever on the East coast.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

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

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‚Redemption Song‘ to ‚Is This Love?‘ and ‚I Shot the Sheriff.‘

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

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

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.