"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius."

Genius, Conversation, School, Solitude

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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Genius, Freedom, Values, Creativity

"The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

Genius, Ideas, Words

"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Genius, Thought, Creativity, Insight

"Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fast talking + in the same full of knowledge."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Genius, Wisdom, Truth, Power, Life

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

Genius, Saying, Silence

"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Genius, Truth, Wisdom, Perception

"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Genius, Simplicity, Communication, Creativity

"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Genius, Intuition, Perception, Teachability

"There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Genius, Horror, Mediocrity

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"The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events."

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"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."

History

"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."

Self-Education

"Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."

Beauty

"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

Power

"It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work."

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"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event."

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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

"The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express."

"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."

"Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fast talking + in the same full of knowledge."

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."

"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."

"Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos."

"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."

"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."

"There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling."

Explore more quotes by Edward Gibbon

"The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events."

"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."

"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."

"Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."

"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."

"Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty."

"Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity."

"It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work."

"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event."