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• Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Success, Education, Knowledge

  The Valley of Fear ch. 1 (1915)

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• Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Creative, Taste, Feels

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• Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Age, Moments, Wit

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• There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.

  John Ruskin

  Writing, Law, Iliad

  John Ruskin (1873). “The fall”, p.97

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• Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Race, People

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.481

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• Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Vivid Imagination, Understanding

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• Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Writing, Hands, Talent

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• Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

  Carl Jung

  Sad, Discrepancies Between, Quality

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

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• Everyone is born a genius.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Human Nature, Born

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• Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, People, Annoyed

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.481, Classic Books Company

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• Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

  Phillips Brooks

  Fire, Special, Vivid

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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• To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Men, Thinking, Two

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, chapter II, 1795-1822.

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• The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible... But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.

  Ayn Rand

  Airplane, Artist, Men

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.72, Penguin

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• Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

  Seneca the Younger

  Science, Giving, Firsts

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

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• Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Gold, Gifts And Talents, Mines

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• THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Lying, Technology, Use

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.432, Princeton University Press

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• We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.

  Wendell Phillips

  Quality, Quantity

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.479

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• Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Men, Thinking, Hands

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• Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

  James Joyce

  Mad, Police, Facts

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.2290, e-artnow

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• The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Flower, Maturity, Atmosphere

  Thomas Guthrie (1857). “The city, its sins and sorrows, sermons”, p.9

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• The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.

  Amy Lowell

  Myopic, World, Oddness

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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• Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

  C. W. Ceram

  Inspirational, Teaching, Simple

  C.W. Ceram (2012). “Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology”, p.262, Vintage

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• One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

  John Foster

  Motivation, Work, Responsibility

  John Foster (1849). “The life and thoughts of John Foster”, p.266

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• We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

  Louis Aragon

  Success, Nature, Work

  Treatise on Style pt. 1 (1928)

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