Genius Quotes
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The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
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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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I would love to think there is a direct relationship between coffee and genius, but they've done studies, and if anything, caffeine probably makes you a little less creative.
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Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.
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The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.
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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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We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
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The only term I won't accept is "genius."
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... France is the genius among nations.
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When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
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Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.
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A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.
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Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
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Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
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Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs. I mean, come on, that person should be the president.
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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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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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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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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
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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.
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It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
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We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
