#genius

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#i #into #life #my life #only

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#critical #dark #genius #imbecile #imbeciles

They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist. ↗

— Rick Yune

#dealing #eyebrows #fantasy #genius #had

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. ↗

— William Godwin

#ally #genius #learning #much #proper

Common sense is the genius of humanity. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#common sense #genius #humanity #sense

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties. ↗

— Francis Herbert Hedge

#developed #faculties #faculty #genius #highly

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#handicapped #limitations #may #stupidity #thus

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#his #our #our time #popular #rejected