Genius Quotes
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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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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!
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There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?
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The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
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Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
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The most profitable and praiseworthy genius in the world is untiring industry.
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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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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss.
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We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
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The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
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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.
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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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Despair and Genius are too oft connected.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.
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The only guaranteed way to be a genius is to surround yourself with idiots.
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To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.
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The unrecognized genius of our time.
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Donald Trump stood up and was asked a very specific question, if there's an undocumented illegal in the military or wants to serve in the military, can they stay? And he said, "You know what? I think that's a good idea."That's brilliant. That's genius.
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We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
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I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all these great musicians would come through our town of Memphis. There wasn't adequate hotels, so these musicians - the lady who ran the theater knew my mother, who had a large house, and many of them would stay with us. So that was another great blessing, so I'm always around these great geniuses, and to realize their humanity is such a touching thing.
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The wardrobe guy of Blow was a genius. He was so tapped into that period and he brought me the ugliest things I'd ever seen and then they were somehow beautiful.
