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"A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it." Author Unknown 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition." Charles Caleb Colton Rate this Quote
"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself." Dr. Samuel Johnson 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." James Joyce 4.2857 average rating Rate this Quote
"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty." Ralph Waldo Emerson 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation." Max Gluckman 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction" Hoshang N. Akhtar 4.5385 average rating Rate this Quote
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." Albert Einstein 4.8200 average rating Rate this Quote
"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn." Joseph Addison 4.4211 average rating Rate this Quote
"Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part." Michael J. Gelb 2.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius." George Bernard Shaw Rate this Quote
"Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean; geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet." Michael J. Gelb 4.3846 average rating Rate this Quote
"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius." Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius." Henri-Frédéric Amiel 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy." Henry Havelock Ellis 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius." Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton 3.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together." Georg Christopher Lichtenberg Rate this Quote
"First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Genius - To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things." Ambrose Gwinett Bierce 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense." Josh Billings Rate this Quote
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