Genius Quotes
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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.
Amelia Barr -
Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It is also the universal link into genius.
Edward J. Fraughton
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The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.
Joseph Lewis -
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.
Anna Brownell Jameson -
He [Jesus] was the greatest human being who has ever lived. He was a moral genius. His ethical sense was unique. He was the intrinsically wisest person that I've ever encountered in my life or in my reading. His commitment was total and led to his own death, much to the detriment of the world.
Charles Templeton -
It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big
Charles Garfield -
Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.
Cass Gilbert -
Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
John Ruskin
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Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.
Albert Camus -
... France is the genius among nations.
Gertrude Atherton -
His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
Victor Hugo -
Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are canons buried in flowers.
Frederic Chopin -
I have it in my head that when we’re born, God writes things down on our hearts. See, on some people’s hearts he writes happy and on some people’s hearts he writes sad and on some people’s hearts he writes crazy and on some people’s hearts he writes genius and on some people’s hearts he writes angry and on some people’s hearts he writes winner and on some people’s hearts he writes loser.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
Seneca the Younger
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Patience is eternal genius.
Michelangelo -
We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
Thomas Keating -
After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
My genius from a boy Has fluttered like a bird within my heart; But could not thus confined her power employ, Impatient to depart.
George Moses Horton -
Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!
George Gilfillan
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The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital.
Judith Rodin -
The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life, amid glory and acclamation; but it burns very dimly and low when carried into "the valley of the shadow of death." But faith is like the evening star, shining into our souls the more brightly, the deeper is the night of death in which they sink.
William Mountford -
The only term I won't accept is "genius."
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.
Darold Treffert