Genius Quotes
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Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs. I mean, come on, that person should be the president.
Wylie Dufresne
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Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him.
Peter O'Toole
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It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.
George Pope Morris
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Ian Curtis was a young genius.
Genesis P-Orridge
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Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.
Haruki Murakami
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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.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.
Egon Friedell
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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man who has a well-furnished European apartment with an excellent toilet and a well-furnished dogma.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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... France is the genius among nations.
Gertrude Atherton
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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!
Eddie Griffin
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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.
George Stillman Hillard
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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
William Blake
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The unrecognized genius of our time.
William March
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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.
Charles Templeton
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Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.
Wendy Wasserstein
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Every family should have at least three children. Then if one is a genius the other two can support him.
George Gibson Coote
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There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
Woody Guthrie
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It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love.
Evalyn Walsh McLean
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Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
Joshua Reynolds
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Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.
Edwin Percy Whipple