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Genius Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
- 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…
- Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.
- The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
- As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The…
- To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the…
- No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.
- There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work…
- Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
- A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
- It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
- Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
- The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to learn from books the present state of human knowledge; that…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius… — Charles Babbage
- If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope… — Joseph Addison
- The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. — Samuel Johnson