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Genius Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade,…
- To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many…
- The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.
- What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding…
- Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large…
- Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they…
- Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.
More Genius Quotes
- 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