Genius Quotes
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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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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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Passing over the other arts in silence, I shall speak briefly of that which concerns the health of mankind; indeed, of all the arts the genius of man has discovered it is by far the most beneficial and of prime necessity, although difficult and laborious.
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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
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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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A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.
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Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.
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To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.
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There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
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Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.
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What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
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Lenny Breau was a genius - inspired and really loose. I loved how he used the guitar as an extension of his inner freedom, because, obviously, on the outside there were a lot of trainwrecks going on. But when you listen to him play, you hear what kind of guy he really is
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A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.
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Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.
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He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.
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It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big
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I only found out about Eminem getting on the track like a month ago. As if the song couldn't get any better. He just slays me, he's such a genius.
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It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity.
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Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their character.
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A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
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The iPod is genius. I have 300.
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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.
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Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.
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Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.
