Genius Quotes

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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead. — Edmond de Goncourt
The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature. — Karl Jaspers
I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant… — Ian Mcewan
You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere. — Brian Tracy
It matters only that you manifest your genius; it doesn’t matter when. It’s never too late or too early. — Mark Victor Hansen
Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. — Tim Cook
Genius is the art of taking pains — Claude C. Hopkins
The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has… — Gustave Flaubert
There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed… — Kenny Smith
Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential. — Wendy Wasserstein
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The… — Samuel Johnson
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the… — Samuel Johnson
I must have just dreamed that about Liverpool playing 3-4-3. What do people think that was, a bit of luck? A British coach playing 3-4-3?… — Brendan Rodgers
The genius does not differ from others in their access to the light within, only in their confident acceptance of its natural outstreaming. — Eric Butterworth
Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and… — Barry S. Strauss
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. — Madame de Stael
Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very, skilful, very clever and his left… — Franz Beckenbauer
Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine. — Arthur Schopenhauer
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over… — Stephen King
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I ask the citizens of this Republic whether such a state of things is to be suffered to pass unnoticed, and the hearts of widows,… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled? — Joseph Smith, Jr.
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it? — Charles de Lint

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