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“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 gladly entertained by men around him.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Race
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“Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there
Seduced me first to me a wicked player.”
George Farquhar Quotes Source: Love and a Bottle (epilogue written and spoken by Joseph Haynes)
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“Genius and its rewards are briefly told:
A liberal nature and a niggard doom,
A difficult journey to a splendid tomb.”
John Forster Quotes Source: Dedication of the Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith
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“Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire.”
John Forster Quotes Source: Dedication of the Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith
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“The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
[Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist
Wahreits-Liebe.]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Spruche in Prosa (III)
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“Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such
We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much;
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind,
And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: Retaliation (l. 29)
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“Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest
excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he
throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every
human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes Source: Mosses from an Old Manse--The Procession of Life
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“Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.”
William Hazlitt Quotes Source: Table Talk--On Application to Study
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“Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),”
Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) Quotes Source: Plain Talk on Familiar Subjects--Art and Life
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“Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a bulldog goes after a cat - with every fiber in him tense with eagerness and determination.”
C. Holman Quotes |
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“Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.”
Horace Quotes |
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“Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.”
Edgard Varese Quotes |
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“Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”
Elbert Hubbard Quotes |
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“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
Oscar Lavant Quotes |
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“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”
Anonymous Quotes |
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“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
Carl Sagan Quotes |
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“Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.”
Joe Theisman Quotes |
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“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.”
E. F. Schumacher Quotes |
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“Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.”
Lydia M Child Quotes |
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“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing.”
Gamal Abdel Nasser Quotes |
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“One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.”
John Watson Foster Quotes |
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“Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.”
G. C. Lichtenberg Quotes |
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“Genius is an African who dreams up snow.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quotes |
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