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• This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

  Deepak Chopra

  Wisdom, Learning, Knowledge

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence”, p.50, Harmony

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• The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Reason, Highest

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.24

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• Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Virtue, Found, Gray

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• The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Atmosphere, Body, Never Quit

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2006, Delphi Classics

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• Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.

  Ouida

  Children, Influence

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.15, Ouida

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• Talent imitates, genius steals.

  T. S. Eliot

  Talent, Stealing

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• Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Magic, Want

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• Taste is the common sense of genius.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Common Sense, Taste

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12495, Delphi Classics

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• Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Work, Commitment

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• The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

  Frank X. Barron

  Home, Symbolism, Creative

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• Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Sight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] ed”

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• We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

  Shakti Gawain

  Motivational, Nature, Self Esteem

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light, 25th Anniversary Edition: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.37, New World Library

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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.

  Margaret Fuller

  Ambitious, Admiration, Talent

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.110

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• The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stupid, Probability, Higher

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• Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.

  Walter Lippmann

  Political, Answers, Franklin

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.500, Harvard University Press

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• All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.

  Isadora Duncan

  Lovers, My Lover, Has Beens

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• Genius is talent provided with ideals.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Talent, Ideals

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• Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

  Clive Bell

  Age, Worship, Inevitable

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• There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.

  Thomas Hoving

  Art, Long, Significant

  Thomas Hoving (2011). “Art For Dummies”, p.39, John Wiley & Sons

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• Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.

  John Dryden

  Age, Study, Kind

  'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668)

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• Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

  David Low

  Men, Thinking, Giving

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• Execution is the chariot of genius.

  William Blake

  Science, Execution, Chariots

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.643, Univ of California Press

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• People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.

  Robert Breault

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.

  Margot Asquith

  Greatness, Men, Intellectual

  Margot Asquith (1920). “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith”

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• A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Proportion, Exhaustion

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