Genius Quotes
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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
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It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
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Let a man of genius make use of photography as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.
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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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Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
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If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius.
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Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their culture broadest, but those who have had the power, ceasing in a moment to live only for themselves, to make use of their personality as of a mirror.
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Genius is not only a what or a who, it is a where. It is grounded in a place every single time.
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Genius has no brother.
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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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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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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 ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and 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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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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Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.
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Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.
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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.
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Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal, and you want complicated music to devour.
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Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?
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All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.
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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
