His Genius Quotes
32 quotes by 30 authors
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Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the…
— James Weldon Johnson
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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
— Andre Malraux
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A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
— Horace
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A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He…
— William James
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That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that…
— Terry Pratchett
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Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading…
— Pat Buchanan
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The defining character of Steve Jobs isn't his genius, it isn't his talent, it isn't his success. It's his love. That's why crowds came to…
— Larry Brilliant
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I can't take his genius any more.
— Rita Hayworth
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During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental…
— Lytton Strachey
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In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed…
— Lytton Strachey
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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And, it seems like a whole new generation of kids have discovered his genius and are bringing him to life again. I hope that wherever…
— Madonna Ciccone
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... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.
— Robert Bly
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Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected…
— Jimmy Reid
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Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.
— Cass Gilbert
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A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Seinfeld has his way of telling jokes - and I'm not comparing myself to Seinfeld, his genius is observing the small details of everyday life…
— Nick Kroll
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There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
— Thomas A. Edison
Who Wrote These His Genius Quotes
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