Genius Quotes

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I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century. Because his whole thing was liberation of the person, of the entity, and… — Jimmy Page
To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant… — Alexander Herzen
But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and… — Vissarion Belinsky
The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how… — Carrie Chapman Catt
Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent. — Truman Capote
Rare is he who will concede genius. — Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz
Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge. — Robert Greene
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected… — Arthur Conan Doyle
In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish. — Unknown Author
There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth… — Sue Monk Kidd
It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world and make it… — William H. Gass
If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius. — Van Jones
It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses… — William H. Calvin
There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people. — Craig Newmark
Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive… — Ludwig von Mises
The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air. — Ludwig von Mises
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them. — Denis Diderot
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the… — George Grosz
There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case. Genius can probably… — Kathe Kollwitz
It is hard to overstate the debt that we owe to men and women of genius. — Robert Green Ingersoll
As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from crank to demagogue.… — Stephen Jay Gould
If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the… — Nikola Tesla
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near. — Fritz Kreisler
I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent… — Flannery O'Connor
There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own… — Erwin Chargaff

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