Genius Quotes

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Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical community,… — Unknown Author
But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work… — Thomas Keneally
Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they… — Carl von Clausewitz
It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was… — Sam Houston
Anyone is capable of anything (will plus belief is ability) if they themselves create the opportune moment and incentive. Heaven gives no genius to disbelievers… — Austin Osman Spare
Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape… — Robert D. Kaplan
Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich.… — Robert D. Kaplan
I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be… — Humphry Davy
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis
I have a lot of respect for L. Ron Hubbard and I consider him to be a genius and perhaps less acknowledged than he ought… — Werner Erhard
Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our… — Robert Menzies
Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom-all… — Ron Rash
I know no such thing as genius, — genius is nothing but labor and diligence. — William Hogarth
Mr. Huston (directed Marilyn in Asphalt Jungle and The Misfits) was an exciting looking man. He was tall, long-faced, and his hair was mussed. He… — Marilyn
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. When it comes down to it, I let them… — Marilyn
Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a… — Diana Vreeland
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. — Abraham Lincoln
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the… — Martin Van Buren
Genius is nothing but continued attention. — Claude Adrien Helvetius
Six months go by very quickly when you're a genius. — Robert Plant
I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and the… — Scott Lynch
Remember, if you do the things you ought to do when you ought to do them, then someday you can do the things you want… — Mary Kay Ash
One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as perfect patterns for… — Sophia Lyon Fahs

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