genius

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You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.

- Josh Lieb

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Genius is initiative on fire.

- Jackson, George Holbrook

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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

- Wilde, Oscar

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RENOWN, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame -- a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand. I touched the harp in every key, But found no heeding ear; And then Ithuriel touched me With a revealing spear. Not all my genius, great as'tis, Could urge me out of night. I felt the faint appulse of his, And leapt into the light! W.J. Candleton

- Ambrose Bierce

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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

- Ray, Man

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The genius of play is that, in playing, we create imaginative new cognitive combinations. And in creating those novel combinations, we find what works.

- Stuart Brown M.D. and Christopher Vaughan

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There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.

- Seneca

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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

- Denis Diderot

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I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

- Burnett, Leo

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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

- Artaud, Antonin

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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

- Aristotle

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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

- William Cobbett

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The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

- Thoreau, Henry David

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Genius is born--not paid.

- Oscar Wilde

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I have nothing to declare but my genius.

- Oscar Wilde

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The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

- Simms, William Gilmore

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The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

- Colton, Charles Caleb