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

Common sense is genius in homespun.

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

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.

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

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

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

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

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

He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.