Quotes by Genius A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius. Norman Mailer novelistsgeniusbook genius has no limit of sex or race. Olive Schreiner geniusracesex I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius. Olga Kurylenko bigsfansgenius I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing. Oliver Jackson-Cohen geniusstudyschool The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. geniusdoeworld True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down. Oliver Goldsmith linesgeniusfall A person of genius should marry a person of character. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. talentgeniuscharacter You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. coursesgeniusmay And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker. Olivier Martinez geniuspeoplethinking Not only must the most privileged feel they are brothers and sisters of the most destitute, but the most destitute must feel as well that something within them makes them equal to the greatest sages and geniuses. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov geniusbrotherfaith 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 geniusinspirationage Ricky Gervais is a genius. Oscar Nunez genius Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one! Orson Welles denygenius I never said I was a genius. Orson Welles geniussaid Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life. Oscar Wilde talentgenius In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity. Otto Weininger individualcasesgenius The man of genius possesses, like everything else, the complete female in himself; but woman herself is only a part of the Universe, and the part can never be the whole; femaleness can never include genius. This lack of genius on the part of woman is inevitable because woman is not a monad, and cannot reflect the Universe. Otto Weininger femalegeniusmen A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning to be acknowledged in America that their emancipation was an act of imprudence. Otto Weininger moralitygeniusamerica Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. Otto Weininger geniusconsciousmen But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery. Otto Weininger chaosmysterygenius«5455565758596061626364»
