Genius Quotes
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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.
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Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
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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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The only term I won't accept is "genius."
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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.
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Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
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Patience is eternal 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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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
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It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
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How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!
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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 particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
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It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.
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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.
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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
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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.
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If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius.
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Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
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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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When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
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[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.
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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
