#genius

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#always #been #blood #cleaned #genius

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#administrative #colour #course #fire #fit

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire. ↗

— Bern Williams

#flame #genius #talent

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#genius #must #talent

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#conflicting #evaluation #genius #hazardous #information

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document. ↗

— J. Reuben Clark

#constitutes #dependence #document #each #executive

The lucky person passes for a genius. ↗

— Euripides

#lucky #lucky person #passes #person

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#genius #idea #resist

Genius is nothing but continued attention. ↗

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

#continued #genius #nothing

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#adler #anyone #anything #books #find