#genius

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. ↗

— Seneca

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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. ↗

— W. H. Murray

#boldness #dream #genius #magic #power

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. ↗

— Robert Musil

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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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I admire Johann Strauss a lot. I believe he was a genius of his time. ↗

— Andre Rieu

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