Be More Creative Gifts: Gifts, Giftedness & Genius in Quotations

 

The Lighter Side of Genius
 

 

 

 
Everybody denies I am a genius -- but nobody ever called me one!
- Orson Welles
 
 
There is a basic difference between genius and stupidity -- genius has its limits.
- Arthur Mohler
 
 
Genius, in one respect, is like gold -- numbers of persons are constantly writing about both who have neither.
- Charles Caleb Colton
 
 
If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks -- but never three.
- Robert Motherwell
 
 
Some men come by the name of genius in the same way as an insect comes by the name of centipede -- not because it has a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.
- G. C. Lichtenberg
 
 
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
- Joey Adams
 
 
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
- Robert Lynd
 
 
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
- Cole Porter
 
 
It takes geniuses to build businesses and idiots to run them.
- Joseph Brooks
 
 
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
- E. B. White
 
 
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
- Larry Leissner
 
 
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
- Unknown
 
 
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- Oscar Wilde
 
 
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison