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“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
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.”
— William James
“Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
— William James
“Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.”
— Rush Limbaugh
“Genius is eternal patience.”
— Michelangelo
“The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.”
— James Madison
“Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.”
— John Stuart Mill
“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.”
— John Stuart Mill
“I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.”
— Marilyn Manson
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