Genius Quotes
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The most profitable and praiseworthy genius in the world is untiring industry.
Elias Lyman Magoon -
That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
Bernard Berenson -
Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
Herbert Spencer -
I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.
Eric Ries -
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.
Rex Stout -
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.
Northrop Frye -
A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.
Neville Cardus
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If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius.
Davis Love III -
When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
Jonathan Swift -
When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.
Jonathan Swift -
Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.
Stephen Spender -
Women. Who made 'em? God must have been a genius. Their hair. They say that the hair is everything, you know? Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls, and just wanted to go to sleep forever?
Bo Goldman -
A cretin can kill you just as efficiently as a genius, and usually a whole lot quicker because a cretin has no conscience.
Eric Van Lustbader
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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
Joyce Cary -
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Thomas Carlyle -
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
Seneca the Younger -
Every family should have at least three children. Then if one is a genius the other two can support him.
George Gibson Coote -
Genius is the error in the system.
Paul Klee -
Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.
Eric Weiner -
Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.
Edwin Percy Whipple -
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
Stephen Vizinczey -
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius
William Crashaw