Genius Quotes
2455 Genius quotes by 1428 unique authors
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They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in…
— Rick Yune
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Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of…
— Unknown Author
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While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human existence more tolerable…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work together,…
— Joshua Prince-Ramus
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.
— Jack Kerouac
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The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
— Samuel Johnson
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I often joke with my audiences that I make most of my income on a ski pole. People smile but they get my point. You…
— Robin Sharma
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If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.
— Michelangelo
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The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
— Edmund Spenser
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And though the philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself throughout the whole…
— David Hume
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The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness,…
— George Sarton
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The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.
— Mark Twain
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A genius is a talented person who does his homework.
— Thomas A. Edison
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This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of…
— Heinrich Heine
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or…
— Stendhal
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Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.
— Frederick E. Crane
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The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
— David Hume
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Ray Toro is a very eccentric, crazy genius type guy. I think he's a genius. He just got this thing at the VMA. The way…
— Gerard Way
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A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them....
— Robertson Davies
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We have to have genius creative thoughts precisely four times a year and on exact dates. I actually write them on my calendar. I write,…
— Tom Ford
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
— Henri Bergson
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Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either.
— John Lennon
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It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was 'all you need is love.' This year, it's 'all you need…
— John Lennon
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