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Genius

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Ceran, C. W.

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

Stael, Germaine De

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

Hume, David

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Weil, Simone

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All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone. That's probably because school hasn't encouraged us to notice what's hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself.

Kline, Peter

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

Adams, Joey Lauren

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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

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The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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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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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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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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There is one subtle but important difference between genius and stupidity and that is that genius has its limits. You'll see yourself clearest in the eyes of your friends.

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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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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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 function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

Trevor-Roper, H. R.

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

Lowell, James Russell

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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Everybody denies I am a genius --but nobody ever called me one!

Welles, Orson

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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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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

Robertson Davies

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Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Dahlberg, Edward

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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Child, Lydia M.

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It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Stein, Gertrude

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