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The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Samuel Johnson
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.
V.S. Pritchett
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir Nabokov
Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede - not because they have a hundred feet but because most people can't count above fourteen.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Too often we forget that genius ... depends upon the data within its reach that Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
Ernest Dimnet
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle
Genius is only great patience.
Anonymous
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison
Genius does what it must and talent does what it can.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Gift like genius I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Ellice Hopkins
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
Victor Hugo
Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.
James Russell Lowell
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
Friedrich von Schiller
The poet's scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. The Genius survives all else is claimed by death.
Edmund Spenser
Genius as such can neither be explained nor treated away only at times its delay and inhibition and its perversion to destructive or self-destructive ends.
Erik Erikson
To believe your own thought to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
It takes immense genius to represent simply and sincerely what we see in front of us.
Edmond Duranty
Results! Why man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
The parting genius is with sighing sent.
Anonymous
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Robert S. Lund
In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.
Robert G. Ingersoll
We define genius as the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
Bernard Berenson
Before I was a genius I was a drudge.
Ignace Jan Paderewski
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius develops in quiet places character out in the full current of human life.
Goethe
Men of genius are the worst possible models for men of talent.
Murray D. Edwards
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is.
James Russell Lowell
There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant
Improvement makes straight roads but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.
William Blake
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W.H. Auden
Everyone is a genius at least once a year a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
G. C. Lichtenberg
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Anonymous
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso
Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James
Write the masterpiece that has not been written.Sing the masterpiece that has not been sung.Paint the masterpiece that has not been painted.Create the masterpiece that has not been created.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A diamond is just another stone to one who is ignorant of its value.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Almost all genius up to now was one-sided—the result of a sickly constitution. One type had too much sense of the external, the other too much inner sense. Seldom could nature achieve a balance between the two—a complete constitution of genius. Often a perfect proportion arose by chance, but this could never endure because it was not comprehended and fixed by the spirit—they remained fortunate moments. The first genius that penetrated itself found here the exemplary germ of an immeasurable world. It made a discovery which must have been the most remarkable in the history of the world—for with it there begins a whole new epoch for humanity—and true history of all kinds becomes possible for the first time at this stage—for the way that had been traversed hitherto now makes up a proper whole that can be entirely elucidated. That point outside the world is given, and now Archimedes can fulfill his promise.
Novalis
If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a genius, and when they can't understand, will certainly think of you a stupid.
M.F. Moonzajer
Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!
Mehmet Murat ildan
She will try to find the nice way to exercise intelligence. But intelligence is not ladylike. Intelligence is full of excesses. Rigorous intelligene abhors sentimentality, and women must be sentimental to value the dreadful silliness of the men around them. Morbid intelligence abhors the cheery sunlight of positive thinking and eternal sweetness; and women must be sunlight and cheery and sweet, or the woman could not bribe her way with smiles through a day. Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized. Any vital intelligence has passionate questions, aggressive answers; but women cannot be explorers; there can be no Lewis or Clark of the female mind.
Andrea Dworkin
If it weren't for acid, you might not have an IPod, and you definitely would not have some of the best music in your IPod.
Bill Maher
Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius.
Wazim Shaw
Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight to his steps. The Term 'genius' when applied to him simply means a man who understands what others only know about. A poet, artist or architect, necessarily 'understands' in this sense and is likely, if not careful, to have the term 'genius' applied to him; in which case he will no longer be thought human, trustworthy or companionable. Whatever may be his medium of expression he utters truth with manifest beauty of thought. If he is an architect, his building is natural. In him, philosophy and genius live by each other, but the combination is subject to popular suspicion and appellation 'genius' likely to settle him--so far as the public is concerned.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Genius: Range of mind, power of imagination, and responsiveness of soul: this is genius. The man of genius has a soul with greater range, can therefore be struck by the feelings of all beings, is concerned with everything in nature, and never receives an idea that does not evoke a feeling. Everything stirs him and everything is retained within him.When the soul has been moved by an object itself, it is even more affected by the memory of the object. But in a man of genius imagination goes further: it recalls ideas with a more vivid feeling than it received them, because to these ideas are connected a thousand others more appropriate to arouse the feeling.
Jean-François de Saint-Lambert
Perhaps if I had made his life more difficult, he would have written less, or less freely. I cannot claim to be the midwife to genius, but if I have not facilitated,I have at least not, as many women might have done, prevented. This is a very small virtue to claim, a very negative achievement to hang my whole life on.
A.S. Byatt
It was the quartets of Beethoven (numbers 12,13,14, and 15) which over fifty years, created and expanded the the audience of listeners to the quartets of Beethoven, thus achieving, as all masterpieces do, progress if not in the quality of artists, at least in the company of minds, which is largely composed these days of what was missing when the work appeared: people capable of liking it.
Marcel Proust
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn
If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great writing has been a staff to lean on, a mother to consult, a wisdom to pick up stumbling folly, a strength in weakness and a courage to support sick cowardice.
John Steinbeck
What a vapid job title our culture gives to those honorable laborers the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians variously called Learned Men of the Magic Library, Scribes of the Double House of Life, Mistresses of the House of Books, or Ordainers of the Universe. 'Librarian' - that mouth-contorting, graceless grind of a word, that dry gulch in the dictionary between 'libido' and 'licentious' - it practically begs you to envision a stoop-shouldered loser, socks mismatched, eyes locked in a permanent squint from reading too much microfiche. If it were up to me, I would abolish the word entirely and turn back to the lexicological wisdom of the ancients, who saw librarians not as feeble sorters and shelvers but as heroic guardians. In Assyrian, Babylonian, and Egyptian cultures alike, those who toiled at the shelves were often bestowed with a proud, even soldierly, title: Keeper of the Books. - p.113
Miles Harvey
Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.
Bryant McGill
There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius.
Rutvik Oza
A true genius is my brother, for his ability to measure and adapt his imagination to knowledge is unbounded. He can turn laziness into tactics. He can drop tactics for strategy without anyone or anything realizing it. He can comprehend grand principles of creation effortlessly and flawlessly. His capacity for knowledge surpasses even my own, and it's not because he constantly takes steps forward. It's because he has unconsciously taught himself to understand the principles behind possibility and nothingness. That is a true genius.
Lionel Suggs
Geniuses are those who have the intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance to acquire the needed expertise in a broadly valued domain of achievement and who then make contributions to that field that are considered by peers to be both original and highly exemplary.
Dean Keith Simonton
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Terry Pratchett
I went to some classes. Vampire was in the Hair of Magical Magic Creatures. He looked all depressed because Draco had disappeared and he had used to be in love with Draco. He was sucking some blood from a Hufflepuff.
Tara Gilesbie
A man's genius seems to befriend the more when he reads with open heart, the masterpiece of masterminds, the sagacity of sages, and the ingenious words of geniuses of ages.
Ogwo David Emenike
A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.
Christian D. Larson
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