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• Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

  Havelock Ellis

  Men, Tragedy, World

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Work, Artist, Men

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• I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

  James Whistler

  Heaven, Intelligence, Granted

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• To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Wise, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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• In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Work, Philosophy

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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• Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Happiness, Success, Patience

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5023, Delphi Classics

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• The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

  Samuel Johnson

  Determination, Luck, Mind

  'The Lives of the English Poets' (1779-81) 'Cowley'

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• Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

  James Russell Lowell

  Power, Men, Talent

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.356

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

  J. G. Holland

  Nature, Talent, Masters

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.274

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• Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

  Malcolm Cowley

  Inspiration, Talent

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• To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Impossible, Talent, Mark

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• The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

  Carl Sagan

  Laughter, Doing You, Doe

  Broca's Brain ch. 5 (1979)

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• Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

  Lydia M. Child

  Electric Power, Earth, Electric

  "Marius amid the Ruins of Carthage". Poem by Lydia Maria Child,

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

  Orson Welles

  Deny

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• Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Years, Original Ideas, Bright Ideas

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg C. Lichtenberg, 1779 - 1788.

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• A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin.

  Ayn Rand

  Race, Numbers, Share

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.149, Penguin

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• Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Inspiring, Dream, Men

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Work, Book

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their expressions and images; we must indicate what is true if we mean to write naturally, forcibly and delicately.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Plato, Writing, Character

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• Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.

  William C. Bryant

  Pride, Honor, Quality

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• That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  World, Masterpiece

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.21

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• A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Husband, Good Husband

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• There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

  Seneca the Younger

  Madness, Genius And Madness

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• Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Eye, Wings, Pioneers

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.75

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• It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

  Quintilian

  Maturity, Happens, Premature

  Quintilian (1805). “Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity”, p.26

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