Genius Quotes
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There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.
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I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
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Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.
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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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There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.
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A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
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Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.
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It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.
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The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
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How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!
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Despair and Genius are too oft connected.
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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.
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There are two very different types of artists: those I call Old Masters, who work by trial and error and tend to improve with age, and conceptual people, or Young Geniuses, who generally do their best work early in their careers.
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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
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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.
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Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.
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People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.
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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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The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.
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The only guaranteed way to be a genius is to surround yourself with idiots.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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For a long time I found myself calling so many things "genius." Sometimes you mean it literally and sometimes it's the opposite, but either way it is so heavy and has so much meaning.
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If but a few live coals are found in a mountain of ashes, no one should be disappointed. Genius is a rare quality in this world, and there is no reason why it should be more ubiquitous among Blacks than Whites.
