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Title: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:00:52 PM
Genius Quotes


Famous Genius quotes by popular authors such as Thomas Edison, Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Pablo Picasso, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and others.

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[highlight-text]Genius is eternal patience.

Michelangelo
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:01:44 PM
[highlight-text]Genius is only great patience.

Anonymous
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:02:49 PM
[highlight-text]Before I was a genius I was a drudge.

Ignace Jan Paderewski
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Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:03:24 PM
[highlight-text]The parting genius is with sighing sent.

Anonymous
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:04:02 PM
[highlight-text]Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Vladimir Nabokov
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:04:45 PM
[highlight-text]The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Pablo Picasso
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Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:05:45 PM
[highlight-text]Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

George Bernard Shaw
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:06:22 PM
[highlight-text]Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:07:14 PM
[highlight-text]In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:07:57 PM
[highlight-text]Genius is personality with two measures of talent.

Pablo Picasso
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:09:56 PM
[highlight-text]Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Fulton J. Sheen
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:10:36 PM
[highlight-text]Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:11:25 PM
[highlight-text]Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

Victor Hugo
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:12:07 PM
[highlight-text]Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Benjamin Franklin
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Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:12:54 PM
[highlight-text]There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:14:02 PM
[highlight-text]Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

James Russell Lowell
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:14:41 PM
[highlight-text]Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.

Elbert Hubbard
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Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:15:21 PM
[highlight-text]A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Samuel Johnson
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Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:16:08 PM
[highlight-text]The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

J. C. F. von Schiller
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Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:16:46 PM
[highlight-text]You may have genius. The contrary is of course probable.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:19:15 PM
[highlight-text]Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Robert S. Lund
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:20:06 PM
[highlight-text]Men of genius are the worst possible models for men of talent.

Murray D. Edwards
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Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:20:48 PM
[highlight-text]Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Isaac Disraeli
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:21:38 PM
[highlight-text]No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Aristotle
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Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:22:18 PM
[highlight-text]Genius is one per cent inspiration ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas Edison
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Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:22:56 PM
[highlight-text]Genius may have its limitations but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Elbert Hubbard
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Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:23:39 PM
[highlight-text]The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Oscar Wilde
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Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:24:26 PM
[highlight-text]Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas Edison
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:25:12 PM
[highlight-text]The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Anonymous
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Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2018, 07:25:44 PM
[highlight-text]There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:42:50 PM
[highlight-text]Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Abraham Lincoln
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Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:43:20 PM
[highlight-text]We define genius as the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Bernard Berenson
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Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:43:50 PM
[highlight-text]Genius develops in quiet places character out in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:44:21 PM
[highlight-text]Gift like genius I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Ellice Hopkins
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:44:50 PM
[highlight-text]Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

James Russell Lowell
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:45:19 PM
[highlight-text]The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

V. S. Pritchett
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Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:45:48 PM
[highlight-text]It takes immense genius to represent simply and sincerely what we see in front of us.

Edmond Duranty
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Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:46:17 PM
[highlight-text]Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Joe Theismann
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Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:46:52 PM
[highlight-text]Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

William James
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:47:22 PM
[highlight-text]Results? Why man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Thomas Edison
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:47:48 PM
[highlight-text]Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.

William Blake
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:48:24 PM
[highlight-text]Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:48:55 PM
[highlight-text]Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Henri Frederic Amiel
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:49:24 PM
[highlight-text]The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction.

Samuel Johnson
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:49:55 PM
[highlight-text]Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:50:21 PM
[highlight-text]Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

W. H. Auden
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:51:01 PM
[highlight-text]The poet's scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. The Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Edmund Spenser
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:51:37 PM
[highlight-text]The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:52:23 PM
[highlight-text]In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:55:51 PM
[highlight-text]When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:56:30 PM
[highlight-text]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
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:57:08 PM
[highlight-text]Too often we forget that genius ... depends upon the data within its reach that Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

Ernest Dimnet
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:57:38 PM
[highlight-text]Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Albert Einstein
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:58:33 PM
[highlight-text]Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love love love that is the soul of genius.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 06:59:49 PM
[highlight-text]Genius as such can neither be explained nor treated away; only at times its delay and inhibition and its perversion to destructive or self-destructive ends.

Erik Erikson
Title: Re: ~ Genius Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 07:00:19 PM
[highlight-text]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.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2018, 07:00:55 PM
[highlight-text]It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition to blaspheme to outrage good taste to corrupt the youthful mind and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

George Bernard Shaw