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

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Henry B. Adams

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
Margaret Fuller

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
E. M. Forster

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
John Henry Newman

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
Adolf Hitler

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard

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

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

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
Denis Diderot

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
Denis Diderot

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
Orson Welles

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.
Diana Wynne Jones

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.
Diana Wynne Jones

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
Diana Wynne Jones

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Thomas Carlyle