Genius Quotes - Page 11

• Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

  William Blake

  Engineering, Improvement, Talent

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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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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• 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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• Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

  Robert Henri

  Play, Growth, Degrees

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The lucky person passes for a genius.

  Euripides

  Gambling, Lucky, Literature

  Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• Genius: the superhuman in man.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Superhuman

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• An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

  Andre Malraux

  Art, Freedom, Dare

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• The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and to counteract his great design of speaking to the heart.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Heart, Design, Attention

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1850). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy”, p.15

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• Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Talent

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• Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Men, Individuality, Wicked World

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• All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

  W. H. Murray

  Commitment, Misunderstood, Boldness And Courage

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• His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Inspiration, Ninety Nine

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• You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Men, Imagination

  "Daniel Deronda".

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• Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Biographies, Talent, Biographers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.635, Library of America

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• Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.

  Steven Pressfield

  Shadow, Resistance, Sun

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.21, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hard-working, and intent men -- their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others.

  Samuel Smiles

  Hard Work, Men, Dumb

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.319

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• To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

  Adrienne Clarkson

  Mean, Civilization, Doe

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• Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.

  George Farquhar

  Player, Wicked, Firsts

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• To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Talent, Mark, Difficult

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• I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Talent

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• What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Definitions, Judgment, Eternity

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 92, 1799.

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• Common sense is genius in homespun.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Common Sense, Common

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• One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Existence, Enjoy

  Ernst Hans Gombrich (1978). “The Story of Art”

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• The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

  Otto Weininger

  Running, Madness

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.184, Рипол Классик

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• Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

  William Blake

  Age, Equal

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.649, Univ of California Press

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