#genius

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. ↗

— Horace

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There is no off position on the genius switch. ↗

— David Letterman

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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left. ↗

— Oscar Levant

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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it? ↗

— Charles de Lint

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Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it. ↗

— Andre Malraux

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