#genius

Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of the world's defects. -pg 129 ↗

— Albert Sánchez Piñol

#geniuses #nature

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#honor #honor

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #different #difficulties #distinction #envy

Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#fool #genius #simplicity #simplicity

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#little-women #louisa-may-alcott #talent #louisa-may-alcott

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

#delivered #down #generation #genius #great

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#french #genius #understand #you

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#know #neighbors #self #wisdom

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#country #dalton #drudgery #elementary #employed

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#choose #down #exact #full #genius