Genius Quotes
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Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest.
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Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.
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I truly believe we all have a sleeping giant within us. Each of us has a talent, a gift, our own bit of genius just waiting to be tapped. It might be a talent for art or music... a special way of relating to the ones you love. It might be a genius for selling or innovating.... I choose to believe that our Creator doesn't play favorites, that we've all been created unique, but with equal opportunities for experiencing life to the fullest.
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The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for. ... want of attention to pecuniary matters ... has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
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It is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.
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Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius: his stock making machine was the daddy of all the industrial profiling machinery, like the 1870s universal milling machine, that was the especial American contribution to machining technology. By that time, the British conceded that machinery innovation had shifted to America.
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It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love.
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Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before.
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Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
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Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.
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Dandyism is a species of genius.
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Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.
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You dont have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.
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There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.
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The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.
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Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses
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High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.
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Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.
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It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.
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One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.
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The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return for innovation unleashes a broad set of talented people in pursuit of many different discoveries. This system, driven by self-interest, is responsible for the incredible innovations that have improved so many lives.
