Genius Quotes
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What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.
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If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.
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When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It is genius precisely because it disregards established routines, because it originates the novelties that will be the routines of the future. Were there rules for discovery, then discoveries would be mere conclusions.
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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
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I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.
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There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.
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Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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Beauty is a form of Genius — is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.
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The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
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The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.
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A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
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Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.
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I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.
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Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellencies, which are out of the reach of the rules of art.
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I'm like a child genius, without being a child or a genius.
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They always say that Albert Einstein was a genius. Then how come when anyone ever calls you that, it's an insult? 'You don't know where you parked the car? Good job, Einstein.' I don't think we're honoring that man properly by using his name in vain in parking lots.
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Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.
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Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.
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The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.
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It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.
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If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation.
