Genius Quotes
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The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
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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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That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.
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J.M.W. Turner... He genuinely tried to create pictures that looked like other artists' pictures, but he always ended up filling them with his own fireworks... through his failure to mimic those whom he admired... he ended up realising his own genius and his own destiny.
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Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are canons buried in flowers.
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A cretin can kill you just as efficiently as a genius, and usually a whole lot quicker because a cretin has no conscience.
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Sleeping is the height of genius.
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Genius. It is just attention to something specific. That's all it is. Law of Attraction makes it happen, and so anyone who gives attention to any subject for a period of time will evolve in the direction of that understanding.
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The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.
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Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
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Even the brain, that most delicate and complex of all known organs, is not merely a lot of neurons added together. While a genius must have more of the gray matter than a sparrow, the idiot may have just as much as the genius. The difference between them must be explained in terms of how those substances are organized.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.
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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
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When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.
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The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained, had more languages, had a better sense of proportion, and were infinitely more accurate scholars and competent professional men than I. I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.
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Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.
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Genius does not only require superior knowledge and skill, but also superior patience.
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What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?
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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.
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Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
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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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A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.
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The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.
