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“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
— Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“I do not consider myself a literal genius. ”
— Lil Wayne
“Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.”
— Terry Pratchett
“Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
— Steve Jobs
“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
“Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.”
— Thomas Alva Edison
“There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. ”
— Aristotle
“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. ”
— Aristotle
“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.”
— Mark Twain
“Genius is born - not paid.”
— Oscar Wilde
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. ”
— Winston Churchill
“No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius. ”
— Stephen Hawking
“A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. ”
— Horace
“Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. ”
— Horace
“The lucky person passes for a genius.”
— Euripides
“The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.”
— Stendhal
“The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.”
— Honore de Balzac
“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”
— Aldous Huxley
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle
“The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. ”
— Victor Hugo
“Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.”
— Victor Hugo
“There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.”
— Victor Hugo
“Genius: the superhuman in man.”
— Victor Hugo
“Taste is the common sense of genius.”
— Victor Hugo
“I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject. ”
— Clint Eastwood
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