#genius

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ↗

— Bruce Feirstein

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Genius is independent of situation. ↗

— Charles Churchill

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To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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I think there have to be Bachs and Beethovens. We may have - there are so many more people. Musical training is available to so many more, but it may be that we've hit a right wall in terms of accessible styles and since we demand innovation as a criterion of genius, there may not be more innovative styles to be found. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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