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Genius
Quotes
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are
born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
- Buckminster Fuller
Thousands of geniuses live and die
undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
- Mark Twain
If children grew up according to
early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Common sense is instinct. Enough of
it is genius.
- George Bernard Shaw
Everyone is born with genius, but
most people only keep it a few minutes.
- Edgard Varese
Everyone is a genius at least once a
year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- George C. Lichtenberg
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.
- Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems,
geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein
The difference between stupidity and
genius is that genius has its limits.
- Albert Einstein
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
- William James
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
- Oscar Wilde
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
First and last, what is demanded of
genius is love of truth.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
True genius sees with the eyes of a
child and thinks with the brain of a genie”
- Puzant Kevork Thomajan
Genius ... means little more than the
faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
- William James
Genius is perseverance in disguise”
- Mike Newlin
Men of lofty genius when they are
doing the least work are most active.”
- Leonardo da Vinci quotes
The function of genius is not to give
new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.
- Hugh Trevor-Roper
Common sense is as rare as genius, -
is the basis of genius
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What moves those of genius, what
inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that
what has already been said is still not enough.
- Eugene Delacroix
Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius
is self-bestowed.”
- Walter Russell
The distance between insanity and
genius is measured only by success.”
- Bruce Feirstein
Genius is talent set on fire by
courage
- Henry Van Dyke
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