Genius Quotes
2455 Genius quotes by 1428 unique authors
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Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength. Industry and determination can do anything…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
— Luc de Clapiers
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There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do what no one…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Great men grow tired of contentedness.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never…
— Orson Welles
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
— Matthew Arnold
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may…
— Matthew Arnold
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the genius…
— Gerald R. Ford
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It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.
— Will Rogers
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In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated mind is the…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers,…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
— Orson Welles
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Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person…
— Galileo Galilei
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I never said I was a genius.
— Orson Welles
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The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore,…
— Matthew Arnold
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I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I…
— Charles Fort
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Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.
— Mike Tyson
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I don't think there is the same space for fashion designers to create like Yves was doing it. So, it's that he's one of the…
— Gaspard Ulliel
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Seinfeld has his way of telling jokes - and I'm not comparing myself to Seinfeld, his genius is observing the small details of everyday life…
— Nick Kroll
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For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.
— Jonathan Nolan
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