Genius Quotes - Page 40

• Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

  B. F. Skinner

  Men, Chaos, Offers

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.116, Hackett Publishing

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• Our genius ain't appreciated around here... let's scram!

  Moe Howard

  Appreciated

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• It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without an extraordinary effort of genius and courage, could at that time be free — becomes to a subsequent age so palpable an absurdity, that the only difficulty then is to imagine how such a thing can ever have appeared credible.

  John Stuart Mill

  Ideas, Effort, Age

  "Collected Works: Principles of political economy".

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• In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Beautiful, Children, Simple

  Giorgio Vasari (1963). “The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects”, London : Dent ; New York : Dutton

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• It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out ; so, in digging in one s soul for the fine gold of genius, much dulness and common-place is first brought to light. Happy would it be, if the man possessed in himself some receptacle for his own rubbish of this sort: but he is like the occupant of a dwelling, whose refuse cannot be clapped into his own cellar, but must be deposited in the street before his own door, for the public functionaries to take care of.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Light, Doors

  Herman Melville (1852). “Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities”, p.351

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• You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you.

  Alfred Bester

  Heart, Thinking, Pigs

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• It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Children, Lucky, Knows

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• Sticking to it is the genius.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are remarkable. They're explorers, travelers beyond the rim of consciousness. Not surprising if they pick up a few bugs and get sick. That's all it is, madness. Mad just means sick. If you get fluid on the lungs it's pleurisy. If it's fluid on the brain, it's insanity.

  Clare Boylan

  Depression, Mean, Yesterday

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• Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Mean, Winning

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• I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Different, Pieces

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. July, 6 2001.

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• Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Nature, Differences, Common Sense

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• If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will -the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.

  William Hazlitt

  Names, Ideas, Numbers

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• Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.

  Mark Twain

  Sleep, Men, People

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• Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that
  tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Men, Tyrants

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.

  Albert Einstein

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• The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Art, Humanity

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.51, Broadway Books

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• Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs. I mean, come on,
  that person should be the president.

  Wylie Dufresne

  Food, Mean, Eggs

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• As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, Actors, Philip

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• Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on.

  Marc Maron

  Thinking, Mediocrity, May

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.204, Spiegel & Grau

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• You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.

  James Franco

  Art, Sleep, Tuxedos

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• Whenever I'm out of town for at least a week, I feel like I should write a postcard or something, but you can be a genius, you try and write a postcard you come across like a moron anyway: 'This city's got big buildings. I like food. Bye.'

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Writing, Humor

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• For me, there are two different things that make Sherlock Sherlock. One is, you know, within the books: obviously he's a genius with an attention to detail, his ravenous hunger for all aspects of knowledge that might feed into his work. But the major thing that makes him Sherlock is his relationship with Watson - their friendship. For me, that, I guess, is the biggest side, the more interesting side than the genius.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  Book, Two, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• Inside the mind of 'America's Mad Genius' is not necessarily a place you want to visit.

  Mike Caro

  America, Mad, Mind

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• Only a genius can play a fool.

  Michael Rapaport

  Play, Fool

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

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