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Genius Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
- Genius is born-not paid
- Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
- Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
- From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is…
- Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
- Talent borrows, genius steals!
- I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.
- I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
- Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
- The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that…
- Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only…
- Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
- Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world,…
- Genius lasts longer than beauty
- You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved…
- I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
- this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night
- I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
- Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the…
- I have nothing to declare except my genius.
- I have nothing to declare but my genius.
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