Genius Quotes

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Genius: the superhuman in man. — Victor Hugo
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last. — Seneca the Younger
What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our navy. ... Our… — Abraham Lincoln
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the… — Margaret Fuller
You are a genius beyond description, so start telling yourself that and become aware of who you really are. — Rhonda Byrne
Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the… — Victor Hugo
The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object.… — Henry David Thoreau
Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is… — David Low
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . .… — Mary Roberts Rinehart
The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God on the earth will be combined together at Christ's coming - and that time is not… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within… — Elizabeth Berg
He's a smart guy, but I think I'm a genius. — Nonito Donaire
The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius. — Otto Weininger
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it… — Ellen Key
If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go… — Simon Newcomb
No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested… — Harvey Keitel
Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to… — Wendell Berry
The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work… — Cullen Murphy
We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly… — Adrienne Rich
Grateful to The Kerry Gaynor Method for saving my manager's life. He quit smoking thanks to their genius Method. — Steve Aoki
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. — J. G. Ballard

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