#genius

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#like #neglected #shabby #truth

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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Common sense is genius in homespun. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#common sense #genius #homespun #sense

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

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Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one! ↗

— Orson Welles

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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#evil #genius #other #some #through

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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