Genius Quotes
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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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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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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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I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.
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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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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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The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.
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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 Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.
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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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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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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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There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.
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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
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Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.
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Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Adversity is the midwife of genius.
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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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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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I'm like a child genius, without being a child or a genius.
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Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.
