Quotes with genius

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Winston Churchill True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison A 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • William Shenstone A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money.
    Essay on man, manners and things (1769)
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • Samuel Butler A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ezra Pound A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • James Joyce A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Honoré de Balzac A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Accept your genius and say what you think.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Joe E. Lewis Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • Horace Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Napoleon Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.''
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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