Genius Quotes

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Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity,… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness… — Rabindranath Tagore
People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work. — Alexander Hamilton
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius. — Unknown Author
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it. — Horace
There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as… — George Eliot
The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience. — Alfred Stieglitz
A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible. — Edward Abbey
There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like an author creates… — Richard Avedon
Genius is never understood in its own time. — Bill Watterson
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations. — Thomas Gray
Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about. — B.F. Skinner
Our genius ain't appreciated around here... let's scram! — Moe Howard
It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary… — John Stuart Mill
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. — Horace
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by… — Giorgio Vasari
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round. — Herman Melville
It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled… — Herman Melville
You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got… — Alfred Bester
It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that. — Diana Wynne Jones
So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief. — John Fante
Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself. — Thelonious Monk
Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered… — James Joyce

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