Genius Quotes
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Genius sees the answer before the question.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.
Wole Soyinka
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The possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
Beatrice Webb
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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
Berkeley Breathed
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The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
Ritchie Blackmore
Blackmore's Night
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Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, and people report that they get great value from it. Another core genius is compiling and writing books. Along with my co-author Mark Victor Hansen and others, I have written, co-authored, compiled and edited more than 200 books.
Jack Canfield
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Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains.
Napoleon Hill
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When it comes to peaking at the right time, I have to thank my coach Mike Holmes: he is a genius.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don't think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish.
Lady Gregory
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The genius of Kate Middleton is that she hasn't gone too far. She's still dressing in a way that people can relate to.
Kate Reardon
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In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
Albert Einstein
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You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
Brian Wilson
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success in L.A. is completely arbitrary. One day you're the brilliant genius of life, the next day people act like there's a bad smell when you approach. Lots of expensive, late-model cars are offered in the L.A. Times every day by people who have suddenly begun to smell bad. The stakes are just too high for human dignity.
Cynthia Heimel
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
Victor Hugo
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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
Damien Hirst
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
Edmund Spenser
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The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.
Jay-Z
