Quotes on genius
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
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Josh Billings Quotes
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
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Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
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Georges Louis Leclerc de de Buffon Quotes
The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
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Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Quotes
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
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John F. Kennedy Quotes
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 Quotes
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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E. B. White Quotes
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
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Robert S. Lynd Quotes
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes
In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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Max Beerbohm Quotes
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
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Phillips Brooks Quotes
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
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E.F. Schumacker Quotes