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| Alla kan laga en omelett med ägg. Bara ett geni klarar det utan. | Luigi Barzini (1908-) |
| Att vara ett geni är samma sak som att ha obegränsad talang för att tåla slit och möda | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| Einsteins genialitet ledde till Hiroshima. | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| Ett geni är en begåvad man som är död. | Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896) |
| Ett intellekt av min kaliber kan inte få sin näring från kor! | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Genialitet är flit. | Napoleon I (1769-1821) |
| Genialiteten har sina begränsningar, men dumheten har inte detta handikapp. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Genier jagar inte mot något mål- de jagas av målet. | Anita Daniel |
| geniet gör de han måste, talangen gör de han kan | Owen Meredith (1831-1891) |
| Geniet rymmer inte mer ljus än någon annan rättmätig människa - men det samlar detta ljuset genom en speciell sorts lins i en brännpunkt. | Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) |
| Geniet visar vägen, talangen går på den. | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) |
| I det praktiska livet är genier lika nyttiga som stjärnkikare på teatern. | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| Jag har inget annat att deklarera än min egen genialitet. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Man ska alltid bjuda genier på middag medan de fortfarande kämpar. Det muntrar upp dem. Om man väntar tills de är erkända ger man dem bara dålig matsmältning. | Charlotte Mansfield |
| Och tro på sig själv, och tro på att det som innerst inne är sant för dig, också är sant | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Skillnaden mellan genialitet och dumhet är att genialiteten har sin begränsning.Skillnaden mellan genialitet och dumhet är att genialiteten har sin begränsning. | Salon Gahlin (1910-) |
| Skillnaden mellan genialitet och idioti är att genialiteten har sina gränser. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Vad världen behöver är ödmjuka genier. Det är så få av oss kvar. | Oscar Levant (1906-1972) |
| Vi är all genier tills vi blir tio år gamla. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Världen är osedvanligt tolerant. Den tillåter allt förutom genialitet | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Verden trenger flere ydmyke genier. Det begynner å bli for få av oss. | Egil Olsen (1942-) |
| Geniet gjør hva det må. Talentet gjør hva det kan. | Owen Meredith (1831-1891) |
| Vi er alle genier, til vi fylder ti | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Det kræver utrolig meget talent at gøre en smule genialitet udholdelig. | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| Der var aldrig et geni uden et stænk af galskab. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Den middelmådige kender intet højere end sig selv, men talentet genkender altid geniet. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) |
| For middelmådigheder er et geni utilgiveligt. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Noget stort lys var manden ikke, men en glimrende lysestage. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) |
| Let at gøre hvad andre finder vanskeligt er talent; at gøre, hvad er umuligt for talentet er geni. | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| Et genialt menneske begår ikke fejl. Dets fejltagelser er porten til nye opdagelser. | James Joyce (1882-1941) |
| Der findes ingen større trøst for den middelmådige, end at geniet ikke er udødeligt | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| En dygtig mand laver ikke små fejl | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Evne til i dag at tænke anderledes end i går adskiller den vise fra den enfoldige. | John Steinbeck (1902-1968) |
| Geni er hovedsageligt et spørgsmål om energi. | Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) |
| Hvad verden behøver er flere ydmyge genier.Vi er så få tilbage. | Oscar Levant (1906-1972) |
| Man må ikke glemme, med hvilken hurtighed geniets visioner bliver lagt i syltekrukker af intellektuelle | Saul Bellow (1915-2005) |
| Genier ere som Tordenveir: de gaae mod Vinden, forfærde Menneskene, rense Luften. | Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) |
| Geni er en afrikaner, som opfinder sne. | Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) |
| Geni er talent ledsaget af idealer. | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| Genier er de heldigste skabninger, fordi det, de må gøre, er det samme som de mest brændende ønsker at gøre | Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) |
| Verden ser på geni med stadig irritation. | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him; | Abbe Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal |
| The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game. | Al Spalding |
| The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. | Arthur Koestler (1905-1938) |
| What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge? | Bette Greene (1934-) |
| The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. | Bruce Feirstein |
| Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. | C. W. Ceram |
| Genius is one of the many forms of insanity | Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) |
| Genius is independent of situation. | Charles Churchill (1731-1764) |
| Genius is of no country; her pure ray / Spreads all abroad, as general as the day. | Charles Churchill (1731-1764) |
| It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big | Charles Garfield |
| Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck | Christopher Quill |
| Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather. | Dale Evans Rogers |
| A genius is a man who can rewrap a new shirt and not have any pins left over. | Dino Levi |
| Genius is lasting 5 minutes longer than the other side | Donald Petersen |
| Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. | Edgard Varese (1883-1965) |
| Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near. | Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) |
| The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something. | Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-) |
| Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience. | George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-) |
| Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience | George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-) |
| The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest | Henry Home |
| The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve. | Hugh Trevor-Roper |
| I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. | James Whistler (1834-) |
| Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains | Jane Ellice Hopkins |
| Genius - the ability to produce fantastic amounts of equally fantastic bullshit that all makes perfect sense | Jason Zebehazy |
| To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education. | John Buchan (1875-1940) |
| When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind | Lord Essex |
| Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. | Lady Marguerite Blessington (1789-1849) |
| In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man | Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) |
| Genius is perseverance in disguise | Mike Newlin |
| For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius | Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908) |
| True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genie | Puzant Kevork Thomajan |
| Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. | Robertson Davies (1913-1995) |
| If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. | Robert Quillen |
| We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open | Shakti Gawain |
| Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. | Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
| God bestows upon one man genius without patience and upon another man patience without genius. The relative achievements of the two are often surprising. | Walter C. Klein |
| All genuine progress results from finding new facts | Wheeler McMillen |
| 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 |
| 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 (1806-1870) |
| He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. | William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) |
| The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. | Albert Pike (1809-1891) |
| No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition. | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does | Christopher Morley (1890-1957) |
| Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. | Denis Diderot (1713-1784) |
| The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. | Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) |
| Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. | Ezra Pound (1885-1972) |
| Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. | Bishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) |
| Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life. | Hamilton Wright Mabie |
| Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy | Henry Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) |
| Genius is talent set on fire by courage | Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) |
| Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. | James Joyce (1882-1941) |
| He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero | Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) |
| Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. | Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) |
| Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features | Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) |
| Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. | José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) |
| It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. | Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) |
| Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. | Madame de Staël (1766-1817) |
| Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife | Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) |
| The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. | Margaret Lee Runbeck |
| Genius is eternal patience. | Michelangelo (1475-1564) |
| 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 | Pablo Casals (1876-1973) |
| When monarchs through their bloodthirsty commanders lay waste a country, they dignify their atrocity by calling it "Making Peace | Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) |
| The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory | Robert Southey (1774-1843) |
| To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| He whose wisdom exceeds his works, to what may he be likened? To a tree whose branches are numerous but whose roots are few. The wind comes along and uproots it and sweeps it down. | The Talmud |
| Genius is an African who dreams up snow | Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) |
| Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. | Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
| For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius | Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908) |
| I have nothing to declare except my genuis. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Genius - the ability to produce fantastic amounts of equally fantastic bullshit that all makes perfect sense | Jason Zebehazy |
| I don't want to be a genius - I have enough problems just trying to be a man | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. | Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) |
| The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve. | Hugh Trevor-Roper |
| I have nothing to declare but my genius. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The essence of genius is to know what to overlook. | William James (1842-1910) |
| The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him; | Abbe Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal |
| The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality. | William James (1842-1910) |
| Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. | William James (1842-1910) |
| When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. | Bruce Feirstein |
| True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genie | Puzant Kevork Thomajan |
| Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| Common sense is genius in homespun. | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. | Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) |
| Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| Eccentricities of genius. | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| Ridicule is the Burden of Genius. | Daffy Duck (1937-) |
| Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. | Denis Diderot (1713-1784) |
| But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. | Dr. Carl Sagan (1934-1996) |
| Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one | E. B. White (1899-1985) |
| Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. | Edgard Varese (1883-1965) |
| Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time w | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. | Ezra Pound (1885-1972) |
| Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. | F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) |
| Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near. | Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) |
| A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. | Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) |
| The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. | Gore Vidal (1948-) |
| The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius. | Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) |
| Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for others is genius. | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| Genius is intensity | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate | Horace Mann (1796-1859) |
| You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind. | Jackson Browne (1948-) |
| Most "geniuses" are just talented people who get up really early in the morning. | Joel Achenbach |
| Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and never can be taught | John Dryden (1631-1700) |
| Poverty is the step-mother of genius | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made. | Ludwig von Mises |
| Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife | Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) |
| I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him | Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) |
| Men of genius are meteors intended to burn to light their century. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Everybody's a genius, it's just a matter of whether you love yourself enough to admit it to yourself and fly with whatever your area of genius is. | Orlando McGuire |
| The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age. | Orson Welles (1915-1985) |
| I have nothing to declare but my genius. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius | Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908) |
| The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Great geniuses have the shortest biographies | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience, and spectator, as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. | Robert Quillen |
| He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities. | Robertson Davies (1913-1995) |
| Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| There is no great genius without some touch of madness. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water. | Stendhal (1783-1842) |
| Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up | Terry Pratchett (1948-) |
| Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration! | Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
| Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. | Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
| Genius is a promontory jutting out into the future | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. | W. H. Auden (1907-1973) |
| The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. | Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) |
| 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 (1806-1870) |
| Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way | William James (1842-1910) |
| Genius is talent provided with ideals. | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have. | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |
| Det er bare de dumme som rydder. Geniene behersker kaos. | Oscar Levant (1906-1972) |
| Det verden trenger er flere ydmyke genier - det er så få av oss igjen. | Oscar Levant (1906-1972) |
| Dette er nettopp geniet: Intelligensen som kjenner sine grenser. | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| Et av de viktigste vitnesbyrd om geni er evnen til å tenne egen ild | John Foster |
| Ethvert geni som fødes som kvinne, er tapt for menneskeheten. | Stendhal (1783-1842) |
| Geni er 1 prosent fantasi og 99 prosent slit. | Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
| Geni er en prosent inspirasjon og 99 prosent transpirasjon. | Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
| Talentet lærer alt, geniet vet alt. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |