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There is no great genius without some touch of madness. -- Aristotle
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction. -- Heinrich Heine
Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect. -- Ellen Key
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities. -- Cesare Lombroso
I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his. -- Matthew Sweet
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more. -- Pierre Beaumarchais
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. -- Joseph Addison
Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until my youngest child went to school, and then I began - the first morning - and I've never stopped. -- Jane Gardam
I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level. -- Michel Gondry
Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. -- Ovid
Every great genius has an admixture of madness. -- Aristotle
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. -- Joseph Joubert
Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer. -- Michel Hazanavicius
You are a great genius. Seek to fulfil it. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius. -- Thomas Starr King
A genius is a man who has two great ideas. -- Jacob Bronowski
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. -- Aristotle
There was never a great genius without a touch of madness. -- Ben Jonson
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind -- Joseph Addison
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. -- Seneca the Younger
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. -- George Eliot
It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am GOOD, i am GREAT, i'm a GENIUS and I know it. -- Constance Chuks Friday
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work. -- Henry Ford
Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty. -- Louisa May Alcott
Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries. -- Walker Percy
It's a great loss.[Carrie Fisher] was a comic genius, as far as I'm concerned. -- Tony Taccone
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist. -- Amit Kalantri
Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others. -- David R. Hawkins
Greatness is the reward for genius...only a few can be great, the rest are plain good. -- Siddharth Katragadda
Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness. -- Brian Tracy
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. -- Ken Burns
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities -- Cesare Lombroso
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. -- Charles Caleb Colton
What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge? -- Bette Greene
Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper. -- Arthur M. Wellington
Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius. -- Thomas Sowell
The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action. -- H. G. Wells
You know what's a great way of tricking people into thinking you're a genius? Write a show about geniuses! -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
In real estate, you make 10% of your money because you're a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave. -- Jeff Greene
Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right. -- Dave Chappelle
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary. -- Agatha Christie
I had great affection for Dana Carvey, and I think we all thought, "Dana's the guy. There's the comic genius." -- Kurt Fuller
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter. -- Francois Delsarte
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
â?¦because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. -- Louisa May Alcott
That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius. -- John Green
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny. -- Camille Paglia
Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color -- John F. Kennedy
I've worked with genius performers. Sometimes they created great work with a bad script... but not often. Play it safe: write well. -- Jerry Juhl
Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore. -- Cory Booker
Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence. -- Neville Cardus
It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity -- Lewis Carroll
Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action. -- Otto Weininger
If someone can write great music... Paul McCartney is a genius. He's so prolific. All we should do is bow down to Paul McCartney. -- Fred Armisen
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius. -- Thomas Mann
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
Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga. -- Andrew Harvey
Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are? -- Natalie Dormer
Isn't it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are? -- Natalie Dormer
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius -- William Crashaw
I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not. -- John Grisham
I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different. -- Walter Isaacson
A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius. -- Norman Mailer
But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire. -- Henry David Thoreau
If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me. -- Charles Saatchi
Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time. -- Joshua Prince-Ramus
The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger. -- Marcus Buckingham
Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion. -- Amy Vanderbilt
Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again. -- Alexander Alekhine
Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur. -- Janet Flanner
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics. -- Cesare Lombroso
I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn't a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him. -- Russell Simmons
When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."[Thoughts on Various Subjects] -- Jonathan Swift
It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius. -- Simon Sinek
Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record. -- Zac Brown
Lord of the golden tongue and smiting eyes; Great out of season and untimely wise: A man whose virtue, genius, grandeur, worth, Wrought deadlier ill than ages can undo. -- William Watson
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? -- Alphonse de Lamartine
I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not. -- May Sarton
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail. -- Elbert Hubbard
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