Genius Quotes - Page 8

• The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Success, Differences, Insanity

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• Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Divinity

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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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.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Vigor, Talent, Produce

  "Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

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• The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Persons, Indebted

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.163, U of Nebraska Press

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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.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Lying, Mean, Fire

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.66

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Errors, Personality, Pennies

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• Genius has no brother.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Brother

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• Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Modesty, Little Women, Finest

  1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.7.

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• People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

  William Hazlitt

  People, Vocation, Profession

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• Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear, as it ascends to its steady and meridian lustre.

  Washington Irving

  Clouds, Lust, Rays

  "The Analectic Magazine".

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• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  Val Kilmer

  Fake People, Real, Thinking

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• My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Procrastination, Evil, Convenient

  Justin G. Turner, Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln (1972). “Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters”, Random House Inc

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• The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

  Walter Lippmann

  Leadership, Business, Common Sense

  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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• Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

  James Russell Lowell

  Freedom, Law, Atheism

  James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett Hale (1902). “Early prose writings of James Russell Lowell”

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  Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Smart, Men, Hamburgers

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• There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

  David Ogilvy

  Men, Agency, Eggs

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Science, Architecture

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1854). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with a life”, p.5

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• Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Recovery, Entrepreneur, Childhood

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• UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Simple, Simplicity, Geek

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

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Real

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

  Walt Whitman

  College, America, People

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.50, Wildside Press LLC

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• Genius is childhood recaptured.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Children, Childhood, Talent

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• Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Pain, Lasts

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.15, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

  Arthur Helps

  Science, Men, Errors

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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• A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

  Max Gluckman

  Teaching, Learning, Science

  Max Gluckman (2012). “Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society”, p.32, AldineTransaction

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