I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
Honore De Balzac

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

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
David Ogilvy

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
David Ogilvy

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

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
William James

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
Quentin Crisp

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May Alcott

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
Rush Limbaugh

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

The lucky person passes for a genius.
Euripides

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo

Taste is the common sense of genius.
Victor Hugo

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
Victor Hugo

Genius: the superhuman in man.
Victor Hugo