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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  (Genius Quotes) His soul was the home of hope, sustained and cheered by the certainties of his mind and the power of his faith. He was the mathematical genius of a great general, rather than of a great soldier. By this endowment he proved himself equal to the unexpected, and that with the precision of a seer  (Genius Quotes) Woman has relied heretofore too entirely for her support on the needle - that one eyed demon of destruction that slays thousands annually; that evil genius of our sex, which, in spite of all our devotion, will never make us healthy, wealthy, or wise  (Genius Quotes) I mused upon the ironic fate which had compelled a mathematical genius to make his sole confidant of a philistine lawyer, and induced that lawyer to repeat it confusedly to an ignoramus at twilight on a Scotch hill  (Genius Quotes) No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me  (Genius Quotes) Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself  (Genius Quotes) Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for it's timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness  (Genius Quotes) But genius looks forward: The eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates  (Genius Quotes) Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?  (Genius Quotes) For the prevision is allied unto the thing so signified; or say, the foresight that awaits is the same genius that creates  (Genius Quotes) Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, landor replies: Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life  (Genius Quotes) The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is  (Genius Quotes) The difference between talent and genius is, that talent says things which he has never heard but once, and genius things which he has never heard  (Genius Quotes) Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet every day posed [baffled] by trivial questions at his own supper table  (Genius Quotes) Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage  (Genius Quotes) There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society  (Genius Quotes) Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider  (Genius Quotes) No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains  (Genius Quotes) So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours  (Genius Quotes) The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him  (Genius Quotes) To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius  (Genius Quotes) The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far  (Genius Quotes) Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in it's nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together  (Genius Quotes) Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from it's hands and the blood has been cleaned up  (Genius Quotes) Between the acting of a dreadful thing and the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream. The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council, and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then the nature of an insurrection  (Genius Quotes) Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save it's members the trouble of forming their character  (Genius Quotes) Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow  (Genius Quotes) It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary effort of genius or courage, becomes to a subsequent age, so palpable an absurdity, that the only difficulty is to imagine how such an idea could ever have appeared credible  (Genius Quotes) No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt  (Genius Quotes) The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable  (Genius Quotes)
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