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- Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
- 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…
- There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
- Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial…
- We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
- Genius appeals to the future.
- Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend
- The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never…
- The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for…
- Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and…
- Genius Borrows nobly.
- Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the…
- A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
- The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.
- The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look…
- Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its…
- The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and…
- Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
- Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
- I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in…
- Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized…
- No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.
- Genius is power, talent is applicability.
- Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the…
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- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius… — Charles Babbage
- The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. — Francis Bacon
- Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large,… — Francis Bacon
- From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal… — Honore de Balzac
- Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all… — George Matthew Adams