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"A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him. "
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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Ezra Pound
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Accept your genius and say what you think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
José Ortega y Gasset
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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Everybody denies I am a genius --but nobody ever called me one!
Orson Welles
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
Robertson Davies
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
George Eliot
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Thomas Carlyle
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Genius is childhood recaptured.
Jean Baudrillard
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
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Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo
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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
Charles Baudelaire
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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison
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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
Denis Diderot
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Genius is sorrow's child.
John Adams
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.
Elbert Hubbard
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Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel
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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
Oscar Wilde
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
Christian Nevell Bovee
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Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
John Dryden
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Genius sits in a glass house -- but in an unbreakable one --conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck. (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. New art, it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in ism.)
Paul Klee
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Hannah More
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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.
William James
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W. H. Auden
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Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
Edward Dahlberg
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Genius, when young, is divine.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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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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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
John Dryden
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
Benjamin Franklin
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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 Edison
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
Oscar Wilde
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde
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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
Buckminster Fuller
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
Margaret Fuller
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It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
Pablo Picasso
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
James Russell Lowell
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Gertrude Stein
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May Alcott
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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Virginia Woolf
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Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
Alexander Hamilton
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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Max Beerbohm
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Simone Weil
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
Washington Irving
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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 from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.
James Joyce
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Since when was genius found respectable?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Jung
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The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.
William Hazlitt
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The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
Charles Caleb Colton
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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
Lydia Child
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The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso
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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde
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The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
David Hume
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle
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There is one subtle but important difference between genius and stupidity and that is that genius has its limits. You'll see yourself clearest in the eyes of your friends.
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.
Mark Twain
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Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
John Dryden
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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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To see things in the seed is genius.
Laozi
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path.
Abraham Lincoln
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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill
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Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Aldous Huxley
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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon
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What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing them -- that what has been said has still not been said enough.
Eugène Delacroix
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