Genius Quotes
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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.
Zadie Smith
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The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.
Jay-Z
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Bernard Lonergan
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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso
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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.
Wole Soyinka
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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.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.
Lisa Lopes
TLC
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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.
Victor Hugo
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A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
Brian Tracy