Quotes of: True-genius Keyword

My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.

Lisa Whelchel

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

E. B. White

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Josh Billings

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

Horace

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Josh Billings

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Edward Gibbon

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

E. T. A. Hoffmann

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

Bobby Fischer

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Denis Diderot

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

Oscar Wilde

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Christopher Morley

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

John Dryden

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Joe E. Lewis

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

William Gilmore Simms

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

Walt Whitman

Charlie: Hot lesbian witches! It's fucking genius!

Being John Malkovich

If I had an idea for a genius app, don't you think I would be getting it made immediately?

Amanda Crew

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

Albert Camus

I'm a big fan of '30 Rock,' which I think is the most genius show on television.

Anna Kendrick