Genius Quotes

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To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to… — Thomas Jefferson
A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine. — Benjamin Franklin
Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention… — Eknath Easwaran
It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The iPod is genius. I have 300. — Karl Lagerfeld
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a… — Isaac D'Israeli
The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance. — Robin Sharma
Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique… — Karen Armstrong
I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius — Grace Hartigan
I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters… — Piet Mondrian
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. — William Gilmore Simms
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you. — Malcolm Cowley
Each individual is unique in ordinary life. The uniqueness becomes even more sharp and clear, crystal clear, when the person becomes enlightened - because only… — Rajneesh
Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
That impossible dream you dreamed when you were young but got talked out of, the one you thought you outgrew, might be the key to… — Mark Victor Hansen
If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it… — Ronald Reagan
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man… — Alphonse de Lamartine
It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking. — Jean-Philippe Rameau
The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a founder of religion.… — Charles-Francois Dupuis
Now I am a genius; before that I was a drudge. — Niccolo Paganini
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be… — Fritz Zwicky
The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free… — Mirabeau B. Lamar
To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. — Henri Frederic Amiel
This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present. — Deepak Chopra

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