One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
Simone de Beauvoir
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JULIETTE BINOCHE Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
CARL SANDBURG Genius is born--not paid.
OSCAR WILDE Everyone is born a genius.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER Everyone is born a genius.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Every child is born a genius.
LIBBY GELMAN-WAXNER One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR An entrepreneur is a kind of genius who is born, not made.
ANN WINBLAD One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Genius is not the one who gives answers, it's the one who asks the questions.
SAURABH GUPTA EARTH5R None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us.
STEPHEN RICHARDS A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
JOEY LAUREN ADAMS One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insani...
JOYCE CAROL OATES One is born an individual; one becomes a statistic.
MARTY RUBIN Genius was born. Sage was tested.
TOBA BETA Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one
E. B. WHITE One work of genius is better than a thousand works of talent.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Jane Heard.
ONE To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
MINNA ANTRIM Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
ANTHONY HOPE Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible
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DEYTH BANGER Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
EDGARD VARESE A fish is a genius in water, an eagle is a genius in air, a fox is a genius on land, and a sage is a...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. WHITE Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E.B. WHITE One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
MAN RAY No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.
STEPHEN HAWKING Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
CESARE LOMBROSO Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON Genius is one of the many forms of insanity
CESARE LOMBROSO Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
THOMAS A. EDISON Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent
perspiration.
JOHN DRYDEN Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
THOMAS A. EDISON If you have a spark of genius, kindle it until it becomes a flame.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I wouldn't say Jamie is a evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil, and I'm not sure he's a genius
ADAM SAVAGE Hands down, Rick Ross is a genius. Hands down, Diddy is a genius. Hands down, Kanye is a genius. All...
BETTY WRIGHT A genius is one that holds two equal but opposing facts and still retains equilibrium.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Everybody denies I am a genius --but nobody ever called me one!
ORSON WELLES Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
ORSON WELLES Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
JOHN DRYDEN Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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MEL BROOKS One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The hobgoblin of a little mind may be the genius of a great one.
HERMESTER BARRINGTON There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, withou...
SUSAN BELL Everyone calls a successful person a genius; every genius who’s not successful people call him mad
AMAR RANDHAWA But genius must be born, and never can be taught.
JOHN DRYDEN Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
THOMAS A. EDISON Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
BERNARD BERENSON What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.
D.H. LAWRENCE Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
DONATELLA VERSACE Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the
enthusiasm of genius.
ISAAC D'ISRAELI I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the...
LEO SZILARD I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no...
MICK ROCK Diego Maradona - a flawed genius who has now become a genius who is flawed.
BOB WILSON No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversations as a dog does.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
PAUL CEZANNE Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potenti...
WENDY WASSERSTEIN The word genius isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
JOE THEISMAN Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
JOE THEISMANN There is one subtle but important difference between genius and stupidity and that is that genius ha...
SOURCE UNKNOWN There's nothin' wrong with bein' a genius. Theres's nothin' wrong with sayin' you're a genius. I thi...
TOMMI POLO I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG It takes no genius to observe that a one man band never gets very big.
CHARLES A. GARFIELD It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big
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SAMUEL BUTLER Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise
BERNARD DE BONNARD Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
EZRA POUND Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
EZRA POUND The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A
Genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
JOE THEISMANN The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.
AMIT KALANTRI God bestows upon one man genius without patience and upon another man patience without genius. The r...
WALTER C. KLEIN A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
SOURCE UNKNOWN So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
JOHN WATSON FOSTER One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
JOHN W. FOSTER Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is o...
FRANÇOIS-RENÉ DE CHATEAUBRIAND Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is onl...
ALEXANDER POPE The true genius of a Woman is her subtle flair in creating the illusion that you are the smart one
JOSH STERN Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstei...
JOE THEISMAN Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
JOE THEISMANN Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
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MARGARET FULLER Genius and Idiots; have only one thing in common, the letter S.
ANUROOP TYAGI I'm a misunderstood genius."
"What's misunderstood?"
"Nobody thinks I'm a genius.
BILL WATTERSON I'm sort of like a child genius, without being a child or a genius.
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SIMONE WEIL A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being d...
SIMONE WEIL As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to t...
SIMONE WEIL But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.
SIMONE ELKELES I give her the only honest and true answer I have.
"You're where I want to be.
SIMONE ELKELES dear kiara,
The women in the shop told me that yellow rose represents friendship and red rose ...
SIMONE ELKELES Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case...
SIMONE WEIL To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to...
SIMONE WEIL Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
SIMONE WEIL There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying ...
SIMONE WEIL Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
SIMONE WEIL There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the...
SIMONE WEIL I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
SIMONE WEIL The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their i...
SIMONE WEIL Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
SIMONE SIGNORET The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
SIMONE WEIL Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
SIMONE WEIL The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is m...
SIMONE WEIL It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time...
SIMONE WEIL