Genius Quotes
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People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.
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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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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.
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There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
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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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Despair and Genius are too oft connected.
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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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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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The source of genius is imagination alone.
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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 term I won't accept is "genius."
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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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The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.
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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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Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
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If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
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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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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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Patience is eternal genius.
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I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
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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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Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
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Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.
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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.
