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Genius

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Edison, Thomas A.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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.

Crashaw, William

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

Joyce, James

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Aragon, Louis

Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Ray, Man

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What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing them -- that what has been said has still not been said enough.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Stael, Germaine De

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It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

Picasso, Pablo

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Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Edgard Varese

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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Heine, Heinrich

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Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enoughto think they can change the world
Are the ones who do.

Apple Computer

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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

Irving, Washington

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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

Lewes, George Henry

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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

Fuller, Margaret

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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Wilde, Oscar

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.

Byron, Lord

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True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Weil, Simone

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All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Churchill, Winston

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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.

Samuel Butler

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The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Koestler, Arthur

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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan