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Genius Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it
- Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
- Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
- Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
- The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his…
- Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.
- The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
- Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his…
- A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
- Genius has no brother.
- Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
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- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius… — Charles Babbage
- The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. — Francis Bacon
- Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large,… — Francis Bacon
- From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal… — Honore de Balzac
- Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all… — George Matthew Adams