Genius Quotes
2455 Genius quotes by 1428 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I can't take his genius any more.
— Rita Hayworth
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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
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
— Edgard Varese
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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.
— Billy Eckstine
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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
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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
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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
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Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.
— Juliana Hatfield
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
— Warren Beatty
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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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