Genius Quotes

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I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I… — Mary MacLane
I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius. — Mary MacLane
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in. — Stephen Vizinczey
A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible. — Marty Neumeier
With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them. — Paul Eldridge
Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the Constitution.… — W. Cleon Skousen
Buffett’s genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality. — Roger Lowenstein
I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of… — Mary MacLane
Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body… — Mary MacLane
Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius. — Roy H. Williams
Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to… — Lewis Buzbee
The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory… — George Steiner
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. — George Steiner
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of… — Frances Wright
How did he do it? He must be a genius! — Gian-Carlo Rota
There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like… — Israel Zangwill
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play. — William Saroyan
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its… — Lord Chesterfield
I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga. — Andrew Harvey
Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books — Albert Pike
It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty. — Zach Braff
A worker without genius is better than a genius who won't work. — Leopold Auer
I didn’t think any biography could do justice to one of the few honest-to-goodness geniuses of our time, a walking paradox who wore a cloak… — Otto Penzler
Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved the indwelling spirit… — Michael Meade

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