Genius Quotes
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Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.
Ernest Legouve
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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 -
I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative genius.
Eric Weiner -
Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
[David] Bowie had a genius for continual change himself, reinventing his sound and his image throughout the decades. Each album seemed to find Bowie in a different persona, with a new sound to match his new look.
David Bowie -
Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of the African American people who were marginalized.
Michael Eric Dyson -
There's been so many different types of musicals and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.
Melissa Etheridge
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Sleeping is the height of genius.
Soren Kierkegaard -
The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.
John Ruskin -
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 -
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
Eugene Delacroix -
Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient.
Marcel Proust -
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Simone Weil -
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.
Gerard Manley Hopkins -
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
George Bernard Shaw -
I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
Soren Kierkegaard
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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
Mikhail Bakunin -
The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.
Marcel Proust -
The unrecognized genius of our time.
William March -
Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
Steve Martin