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Genius Quotes
"Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius."
8
"I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats."
8
"Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more."
8
"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"
8
"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero."
8
"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."
7
"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense."
7
"Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person."
7
"I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest."
7
"The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away."
6
"Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials."
6
"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."
6
"The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities."
6
"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."
5
"Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius."
5
"Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
4
"To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization."
4
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts, they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
4
"Genius - the pursuit of madness."
4
"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."
4
"Genius thinks out of box when leader adjusts the size of box."
3
"Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!"
3
"Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things."
3
"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."
3
"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
3
"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."
2
"The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated."
2
"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."
2
"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
2
"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."
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