Genius Quotes

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See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on its back, so… — Wayne Dyer
Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all. — Max Euwe
It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to… — Hazel Henderson
Every creative genius has been a channel. Every masterwork has been created through the channeling process. Great works are not created by the personality alone.… — Shakti Gawain
I can't take his genius any more. — Rita Hayworth
Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body and… — Frances Perkins
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. — Edgard Varese
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it. — George Bernard Shaw
I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am — Rene Descartes
This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could the very air… — Unknown Author
Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his neighbours,… — Unknown Author
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified… — James Gleick
To create a community of radical scholars, men and women who recognize that rules and social conventions are arbitrary, but have mastered them nonetheless, a… — Unknown Author
The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought… — Ayn Rand
He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous. — William Shakespeare
It is a love/hate relationship I have with the human race. I am an elitist, and I feel that my responsibility is to drag the… — Harlan Ellison
... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different. — Billy Eckstine
Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art… — Alexander Pope
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the… — Loren Eiseley
And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree.... Four dry logs… — Pietro Aretino
Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent. — Juliana Hatfield
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius. — Warren Beatty
It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery in… — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

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