#genius

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

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I have never been an innovator, a creative genius. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

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I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level. ↗

— Michel Gondry

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I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not. ↗

— John Grisham

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Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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