Genius Quotes - Page 2

• What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Creativity, Power, Ideas

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1954). “Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: the unpublished letters of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford”

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• God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

  Anna Pavlova

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Expression

  1918 Letter to J B Yeats, 4 Feb.

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• The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.

  David Luiz

  Player, Piano, Consistency

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• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  Oscar Wilde

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Book

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 1 (1891)

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• Talent works, genius creates.

  Robert Schumann

  Music, Coaching, Talent

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• Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Apology, Later In Life, Feet

  "The Crack-Up". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1936.

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• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

  Aldous Huxley

  Birthday, Children, Mean

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• I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Life Lesson, Experience, Bundles

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• Genius is perseverance in disguise.

  Mike Newlin

  Softball, Perseverance, Persistence

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• A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Ideas, Two

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Technology, Born, Process

  "The Schoolhouse: Where Dreams Go to Die?" by Arnold Dodge, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2013.

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• But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

  Carl Sagan

  Funny, Brother, Laughter

  Broca's Brain ch. 5 (1979)

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• Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

  William James

  Creativity, Mean, Science

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

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• When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

  Jonathan Swift

  Funny, Education, Truth

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

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• Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

  Pablo Picasso

  Positive, Artist, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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

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• It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Moving, Simple

  "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

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• Genius involves both envy and calumny.

  Alexander Pope

  Envy, Calumny

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• The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

  Lydia M. Child

  Eye, Expression, Language

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 39, 1843.

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• Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

  George Henry Lewes

  Science, Giving, Able

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone. That's probably because school hasn't encouraged us to notice what's hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself.

  Peter Kline

  Children, School, Waiting

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• Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

  Alexander Pope

  Design, Sublime, Literature

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• There is no off position on the genius switch.

  David Letterman

  Comedy, Position

  "Late Show with David Letterman", www.imdb.com. 1993 - 2015.

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• I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Justice, Trying

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