Genius Quotes

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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would… — Soren Kierkegaard
You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius. — Ashley Montagu
Poverty is the step-mother of genius. — Josh Billings
Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius. — Cyril Connolly
It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas. — Charles Peguy
Genius is infinite painstaking. — Michelangelo
Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their… — Marcel Proust
Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the… — James Weldon Johnson
It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land. — Thomas Jefferson
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. — Charles Caleb Colton
Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects. — Charles Caleb Colton
The persecution of genius fosters its influence. — Tacitus
There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords… — Gelett Burgess
Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. — Seneca the Younger
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it. — William Hazlitt
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships. — Gore Vidal
The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme. — Jose Ortega y Gasset

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