#genius

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

— Francis Herbert Hedge

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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully? ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

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A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. ↗

— Horace

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

— Robert Hughes

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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Taste is the common sense of genius. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. ↗

— Louis Aragon

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

— Francis Bacon

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