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hits it." | |
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Proverb
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| "A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are the portals of
discovery." | |
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James Joyce
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| "Before I was a genius, I was a drudge." | |
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Jan Ignace Paderewski
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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." | |
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Carl Sagan
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| "Don"t bother about genius. Don"t worry about being clever. Trust to
hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long
march is: "Don"t grumble. Plug on!"" | |
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Sir Frederick Treves
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| "Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the
talent to the dark place where it leads." | |
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Erica Jong
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| "Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man
sees one, and where the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability
to register that multiple perception in the material of his art." | |
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Ezra Pound
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| "Genius does not herd with genius." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration." | |
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Thomas Alva Edison
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| "Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite." | |
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Victor Hugo
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| "Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and
improves the happiness of mankind." | |
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Lord Robert Devereux Essex
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| "Genius is eternal patience." | |
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Michelangelo
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| "Genius is naught but a greater aptitude for patience." | |
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Comte de Buffon
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| "Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "Genius is talent provided with ideals." | |
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William Somerset Maugham
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| "Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent ? the power
to do the right thing the first time." | |
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Elbert Hubbard
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| "Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and
brings it out." | |
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Marguerite Blessington
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| "Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the
less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife." | |
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Margaret Sarah Fuller
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| "Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true
for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3. the fruit of labour and
thought. 4. soul. 5. the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
6. something one can become." | |
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Heinrich Heine
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| "Great minds have purposes, others have wishes." | |
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Washington Irving
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| "I don"t speak for others and they don"t speak for me. Mediocrity
knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes
genius." | |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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| "I don"t want to be a genius ? I have enough problems just trying to
be a man." | |
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Albert Camus
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| "I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction
or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given
him." | |
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Sir Max Beerbohm
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| "If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly
in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in
the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides." | |
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Reid
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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." | |
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Gertrude Stein
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| "Like associates with like." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both
together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of
genius." | |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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| "Next to possessing genius one"s self is the power of appreciating it
in others." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "No great genius is without an admixture of madness." | |
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Aristotle
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| "One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of
lighting its own fire." | |
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John Foster
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| "One science only will one genius fit: So vast is art, so narrow
human wit." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound,
and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and
for this reason, creative geniuses are not common." | |
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Denis Diderot
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| "Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius" | |
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Benjamin Disraeli
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| "Since when was genius found respectable?" | |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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| "Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to
do, the patience to wait.... Put these together and you have genius, and
you have achievement." | |
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Leo J. Muir
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| "Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that
certain insects come by the name of centipede, not because they have a
hundred feet, but because most people can"t count above fourteen." | |
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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| "Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of
human life." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." | |
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Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
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| "Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius,
being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never." | |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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| "The ability of someone to choose and arrange the details of their
creative field guided by a vision is a major hallmark of a genius." | |
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John Briggs
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its
limits." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to
his opinion twenty years later." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is
that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits
upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the
advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to
the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value." | |
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Abbé Guillaume Thomas François Raynal
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| "The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally
determined to some particular direction." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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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" | |
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Antonin Artaud
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| "There is no great genius without a tincture of madness. Nullum
magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiæ" | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of
mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not
sooner or later responded." | |
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James Russell Lowell
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| "There"s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this
line." | |
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Oscar Levant
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| "There"s a fine line between participation and mockery." | |
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Scott Raymond Adams
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| "Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered ? either by
themselves or by others." | |
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Unknown
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| "True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain,
hazardous, and conflicting information." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not
new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been
said is still not enough" | |
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Eugène Delacroix
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| "Without the Way, there is no going; Without the Truth, there is no
knowing; Without the Life, there is no living." | |
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Thomas à Kempis
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