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A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him (Genius Quotes)
This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another (Genius Quotes)
The new era differs from the old chiefly in that the lash begins to imagine itself possessed of genius (Genius Quotes)
What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities (Genius Quotes)
Every positive value has its price in negative terms. The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima (Genius Quotes)
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express (Genius Quotes)
I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality (Genius Quotes)
Whores. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius (Genius Quotes)
There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius (Genius Quotes)
I had no genius, no mission to fulfill, no great heart to bestow. I had nothing and I deserved nothing. But all the same I desired some sort of reward (Genius Quotes)
Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man (Genius Quotes)
I am heartily glad to witness your veneration for a book which to say nothing of its holiness or authority, contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence (Genius Quotes)
A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius (Genius Quotes)
Not all on books their criticism waste; the genius of a dish some justly taste, and eat their way to fame (Genius Quotes)
Despite the unquestionable greatness of the Anglo Saxon genius, it is impossible not to see that the laws of revolutions are least understood precisely in the Anglo Saxon countries (Genius Quotes)
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature (Genius Quotes)
Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves (Genius Quotes)
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny (Genius Quotes)
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius (Genius Quotes)
Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely (Genius Quotes)
The friendship between great men is rarely intimate or permanent. It is a Boswell that most appreciates a Johnson. Genius has no brother, no co-mate; the love it inspires is that of a pupil or a son (Genius Quotes)
What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius (Genius Quotes)
Oh, can these men love, my Clodius? Scarcely even with the senses. How rarely a Roman has a heart! He is but the mechanism of genius - he wants its bones and flesh (Genius Quotes)
It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius (Genius Quotes)
Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have (Genius Quotes)
The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius (Genius Quotes)
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty (Genius Quotes)
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty (Genius Quotes)
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand (Genius Quotes)
The artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of genius, whether of man or nature. The artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected (Genius Quotes)