#genius

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

#brain #discerning #genius #gives #good

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

— Samuel Goldwyn

#any #day #genius #give #give me

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

#charlie #combination #compare #different #different level

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.' ↗

— Temple Grandin

#autism #bunch #could #einstein #end

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. ↗

— George Grosz

#cult #genius #greater #individuality #itself

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little. ↗

— B. R. Hayden

#alone #always #attainment #envied #genius

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#carry #child #enthusiasm #genius #into

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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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

#carrying #events #every #extraordinary #flows