Quotes with genius

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• Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

  Josiah Gilbert Holland
  American Author (1819 - 1881)
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• Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater
  Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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• Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Austrian composer, pianist, violinist and conductor (1756 - 1791)
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• Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient?

  Marcel Proust
  French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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• Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
  French naturalist and mathematician
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• No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

  Anna Pavlova
  Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the (1881 - 1931)
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• No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

  Interview in Time (27 september 1993)

  Stephen Hawking
  English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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• Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

  Sir John Denham
  Anglo-Irish poet and courtier (1615 - 1669)
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• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge
  American president (1872 - 1933)
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• Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

  Robert Hayden
  American poet, essayist, and educator (1913 - 1980)
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• Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

  Edwin P. Whipple
  American essay writer (1819 - 1886)
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• One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.

  Simone de Beauvoir
  French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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• One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

  Man Ray
  American visual artist (1890 - 1976)
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• One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

  John W. Foster
  American diplomat and military (1836 - 1917)
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• One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

  Alexander Pope
  English poet (1688 - 1744)
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• Passion is the genesis of genius.

  Anthony Robbins
  American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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• People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

  William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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• People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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• Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

  Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• characteristics
• prerequisites
• satisfactions
• counterfeit
• translation
• persistence

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