Geniuses Quotes
216 Geniuses quotes by 182 unique authors
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A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some…
— David Brainerd
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You don't even really need a place. But you feel like you're doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you…
— Herman Wouk
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Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses
— Cesare Lombroso
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Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a…
— Diana Vreeland
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I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and the…
— Scott Lynch
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One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as perfect patterns for…
— Sophia Lyon Fahs
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Not only must the most privileged feel they are brothers and sisters of the most destitute, but the most destitute must feel as well that…
— Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
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Children share with geniuses an open, inquiring, uninhibited quality of mind.
— Chauncey Guy Suits
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With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.
— Paul Eldridge
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I didn’t think any biography could do justice to one of the few honest-to-goodness geniuses of our time, a walking paradox who wore a cloak…
— Otto Penzler
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Genius involves figuring out who you are, and owning yourself. It's about amplifying your best traits and compensating for the rest. Geniuses grab life by…
— Scott Barry Kaufman
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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
— Alain Prost
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Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The…
— David Gelernter
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit…
— J. B. Priestley
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It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move…
— Robert Harris
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Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.
— James Lipton
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We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
— Knute Rockne
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Be not afraid , for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. From out of their ranks have come…
— Swami Vivekananda
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