Genius Quotes

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will… — Edward Dahlberg
No kid is unsmart. Every kid's a genius at something. Our job is to find it. And then encourage it. — Robin Sharma
Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But… — Gaston Bachelard
Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow. — Thomas Huxley
Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others. — Mark Twain
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth… — Ambrose Bierce
Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence… — Dan Simmons
The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity. — Jonah Lehrer
What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will. — James M. Barrie
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius.… — Rob Brezsny
I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist. — Philippe Starck
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says,… — Madeleine L'Engle
Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who die in their… — Knut Hamsun
Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself. — Lee Kuan Yew
Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece… — Eddie Redmayne
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of imagination; of spiritual… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Talent imitates, but genius steals. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
My only genius talent is inquisitiveness. — Albert Einstein
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase. — Horace
But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no… — Diana Wynne Jones
In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award for… — Steven Pinker
Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in… — Max Stirner
If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields. — Stephen Jay Gould

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