My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
Marilyn French

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Peter Drucker

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

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.
Donald Knuth

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
Alain Prost

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.
Toru Takemitsu

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
Samuel Richardson

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
David Herbert Lawrence

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
Mark Twain

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
Cesare Lombroso

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
Walt Disney

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Aldous Huxley

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
Knute Rockne

We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
Jackie DeShannon

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
Joseph Priestley

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
J. B. Priestley

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
Oscar Levant

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.
Paul Eldridge