#genius

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. ↗

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#disorder #gaiety #genius #machine #men

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#empty #flamboyant #genius #labels #luggage

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

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You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. ↗

— George Eliot

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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. ↗

— George Eliot

#discipline #first #genius #great #little

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#different #every #every man #fellows #genius

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