Genius Quotes
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No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.
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Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.
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True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.
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Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
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There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.
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The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.
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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
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The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.
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There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people.
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Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word genius to.
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There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.
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Mr Robert Montgomery's genius is far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? His readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.
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When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.
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With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
