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Quotations by Subject: Genius (15 quotes)

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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 (1803 - 1882)
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.: Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
Since when was genius found respectable?: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
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When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
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...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Describing a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, 1962
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915
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His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.: Paterculus

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