An idiot with a plan can beat a genius without a plan

To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.

I'm no genius.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates through it.

“Some people without possesing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it”

“They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.”

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”

“THE WILD BOAR AND THE FOX A Wild Boar was engaged in whetting his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a Fox came by and, seeing what he was at, said to him, "Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out to-day, and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see." "True, my friend," replied the Boar, "but the instant my life is in danger I shall need to use my tusks. There'll be no time to sharpen them then.”

“The difference between the genius of the British constitution which protects and governs North America, and that of the mercantile company which oppresses and domineers in the East Indies, cannot perhaps be better illustrated than by the different state of those countries.”

“The difference between the genius of the British constitution, which protects and governs North America, and that of the mercantile company which oppresses and domineers in the East Indies, cannot, perhaps, be better illustrated than by the different state of those countries.”

“The difference of natural talents in different men, is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause, as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education. When they came in to the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were, perhaps, very much alike, and neither their parents nor play-fellows could perceive any remarkable difference. About that age, or soon after, they come to be employed in very different occupations. The difference of talents comes then to be taken notice of, and widens by degrees, till at last the vanity of the philosopher is willing to acknowledge scarce any resemblance.”

A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.

"To see things in the seed, that is genius."

"Men of genius are so few that they ought to atone for their fewness by being at any rate ubiquitous."

"People are always asking that a person should be perfect. Wayne is a genius as a player - he has everything - and he also has a temperament. But you can't ask people to be perfect."

"The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds."

"Passion is the genesis of genius."

"I probably have genius. But no talent."

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."