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The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. ... It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.

The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.

The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.

The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

The iPod is genius. I have 300.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

The lucky person passes for a genius.

The man of genius possesses, like everything else, the complete female in himself; but woman herself is only a part of the Universe, and the part can never be the whole; femaleness can never include genius. This lack of genius on the part of woman is inevitable because woman is not a monad, and cannot reflect the Universe.

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.

The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.

The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

Theodore Roosevelt regarded leadership as his one gift, the area in which he might be considered to possess genius. He presented his views on leadership throughout his voluminous writings. He intended for future writers to study them with an eye toward action, as he himself had done of historic figures.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.

The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

The philosopher is not an apologist; apologetic concern, as Karl Barth (the one living theologian of unquestionable genius) has rightly insisted, is the death of serious theologizing, and I would add, equally of serious work in the philosophy of religion.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.

The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.