Genius Quotes

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Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius. — Euripides
Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity. — Bill Cosby
The source of genius is imagination alone. — Eugene Delacroix
It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are. — Jim Shepard
I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must… — Denis Diderot
We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them and… — John Dewey
If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he… — A. E. Housman
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that… — Bertrand Russell
I am the life-force power of the universe. I am the life-force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form,… — Jill Bolte Taylor
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently. — Eugene Delacroix
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. — J. G. Holland
Genius is independent of situation. — Charles Churchill
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. — Oscar Wilde
The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears… — Mark Twain
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot. — Henry Ward Beecher
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will… — May Sarton
I know of no genius but the genius of hard work. — J M W Turner
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please. — Andre Malraux
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy. — Man Ray
Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same. — Lydia M. Child
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. — Franz Grillparzer
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. — Isaac D'Israeli
The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to… — John Kenneth Galbraith
He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar… — Samuel Johnson

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