"I think I am a smarter player now."

"Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times"

"I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience."

"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell"

"The role of the intelligence -that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit."

"Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence."

"Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought."

"Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on."

"Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal"

"The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources."

"The lucky person passes for a genius"

"The lucky person passes for a genius."

"Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks."

"Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features"

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

"There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do."

"Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare."

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

"My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed."

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

“Genius lasts longer than beauty” 

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.