Famous Genius Quotes - Famous Quotes about Genius
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
- Vladimir Nabokov
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
- E. B. White
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Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
- Thomas A. Edison
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
- Gertrude Stein
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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
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No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail.
- Levy's Eighth Law
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Since when was genius found respectable?
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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The lucky person passes for a genius.
- Euripides
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- Oscar Wilde
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The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
- David Hume
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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
- Louis Aragon
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With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.
- Paul Eldridge
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You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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