Great Genius Quotes
20 quotes by 18 authors
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
— Aristotle
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of…
— Joseph Addison
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The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would…
— Nikola Tesla
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Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount…
— Walter Russell
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Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously unlikely that, even…
— Robert Nozick
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Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered…
— James Joyce
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I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see…
— Michel Gondry
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The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
— Cesare Lombroso
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Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young…
— John Ruskin
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind
— Joseph Addison
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I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.
— Matthew Sweet
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I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says,…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Every great genius has an admixture of madness.
— Aristotle
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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
— Seneca the Younger
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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
— Heinrich Heine
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I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are a person's most…
— Augusten Burroughs
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
— Seneca
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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
Who Wrote These Great Genius Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 20 Great Genius Quotes as follows: