Genius Quotes - Page 10

• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.128, Harvard University Press

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• Genius always finds itself a century too early.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligence, Talent, Century

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.81, University of Missouri Press

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• The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

  Bruce Feirstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Fictional character: Elliot Carver". "Tomorrow Never Dies", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

  Learning, Science, Giving

  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper (1966). “Historical essays”

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• Hunger is the handmaid of genius

  Mark Twain

  Hunger, Handmaids

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Giving, Brain, Intelligence

  'She Stoops to Conquer' (1773) act 1, sc. 1, song

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• Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

  Mark Twain

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Positive Thinking

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.58, Univ of California Press

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• Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

  E. B. White

  Funny, Senior, Witty

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• Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Business, Stupid

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

  Brian Wilson

  Hard Work, Guy, Hard

  Domenic Priore, Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks (2005). “Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece”, p.73, Omnibus Press

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• We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

  Aldous Huxley

  50th Birthday, Age, Aging

  Aldous Huxley (1924). “Young Archimedes: and other stories”, H. Doran

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• These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

  Abigail Adams

  Character, Wish, Endurance

  Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 Jan. 1780

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• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

  Oscar Levant

  Inspirational, Funny, Depression

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

  George Henry Lewes

  Life, Beauty, Wisdom

  'A Spanish Drama' ch. 2

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• Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Wisdom, Real, Years

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• Genius is eternal patience.

  Michelangelo

  Positive, Patience, Art

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• 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

  Love, Marriage, Flower

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (1971). “Chagall at the Met”, Leon Amiel Publisher

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• Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Dream, Educational, Snow

  Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell (1963). “The gift”

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• Genius is of no country.

  Charles Churchill

  Country

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.47

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• Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

  William Hazlitt

  Humanity, Intelligence, Use

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.141

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• Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Christian, Life And Love

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• The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Hiroshima

  Remark to Fran‡oise Gilot in 1946, in Fran‡oise Gilot and Carlton Lake Life With Picasso (1964) pt. 2

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• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  Carl Sandburg

  Book, Men, Literature

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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