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“Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”
Winston Churchill Quotes |
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“Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”
Seneca Quotes |
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“I have nothing to declare but my genius.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.”
Aristotle Quotes |
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“Doing easily what others find it difficult is talent; doing what
is impossible for talent is genius.”
Henri-Frederic Amiel Quotes Source: Journal
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“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
[Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementia.]”
Aristotle Quotes Source: quoted by Burton's in "Anatomy of Melancholy"
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“As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the
parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius,
which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character
too.”
Cyrus Augustus Bartol Quotes Source: Radical Problems--Individualism
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“Genius is only patience.
[Fr., Le Genie, c'est la patience.]”
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon Quotes Source: as quoted by Madame de Stael in A. Steven's "Study of the Life and Times of Mme. de Stael"
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“Genius . . . means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Frederick the Great (bk. IV, ch. III)
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“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes Source: Contarini Fleming (pt. IV, ch. 5)
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“Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.”
Isaac D'Israeli Quotes Source: Curiosities of Literature--Poverty of the Learned
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“Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius
can appear.”
Isaac D'Israeli Quotes Source: Literary Character of Men of Genius
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“To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men
of genius--the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.”
Isaac D'Israeli Quotes Source: Literary Character of Men of Genius (ch. II)
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“Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the
enthusiasm of genius.”
Isaac D'Israeli Quotes Source: Literary Character of Men of Genius (ch. XII)
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“Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often
originates in the events of times.”
Isaac D'Israeli Quotes Source: Literary Character of Men of Genius (ch. XXV)
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“But genius must be born, and never can be taught.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Epistle X--To Congreve (l. 60)
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“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent
perspiration.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Epistle X--To Congreve (l. 60)
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“Any 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.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Epistle X--To Congreve (l. 60)
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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more
complex. . . . It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Epistle X--To Congreve (l. 60)
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“When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Method of Nature
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