Genius Quotes
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The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification.
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James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius - the union of them for practical application.
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Lazy geniuses! There are no such men. Laziness and genius never go hand in hand. Each excludes the other. Laziness is the best proof of the absence of genius.
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There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people.
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As eternity is longer than time, as mind is stronger than matter, as thought is swifter than the wind, as genius is more potent than gold, so will the results of well-directed labors toward the development of man's higher faculties ever outweigh a thousand fold any estimate in the currency of commerce, which man can put upon such efforts.
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Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.
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If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
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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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By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.
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If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
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Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.
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To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly.
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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
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Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores.
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All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on.
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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!
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The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.
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It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty.
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The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.
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The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.
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Genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.
