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The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.


Hugh Trevor-Roper


#function #genius #give #mediocrity #new

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.


George Saintsbury


#english #englishmen #exceptions #found #french

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.


Henryk Sienkiewicz


#been #better #does #fertile #genius

Yes," Jace said, unable to help himself, "I was trained to be an evil mastermind from a young age. Pulling the wings off flies, poisoning the earth's water water supply - I was covering that stuff in kindergarten. I guess we're all just lucky my father faked his own death before he got to the raping and pillaging part of my education, or no one would be safe.


Cassandra Clare


#jace-wayland #smartmouth #valentine-morgenstern #age

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.


Aaron Yoo


#deny #favorite #films #genius #hitchcock

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.


Karl Lagerfeld


#chanel #creativity #dangerous #ephemeral #fashion-designer

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.


Alexander Pope


#an-essay-on-criticism #art #genius #music #poet

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.


Denis Diderot


#insanity #men

Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence!


Patricia Polacco


#experience

I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.


Criss Jami


#attraction #fantasy #funny #funny-but-true #gallant






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