Genius Quotes
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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.
Lois McMaster
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We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.
Thomas Carlyle
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
Seneca the Younger
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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?
Howard Stern
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Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Thomas Carlyle
