Quotes of: True-genius Keyword

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

I believe I have moments of pure genius...the rest of them are all insanity.

To Murder Matt

Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.

Ogilvy on Advertising

A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

Whatever you can do or think you can begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe.

Like One of the Family

Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren't.

Leaving the Sea

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Little Women

Genius thinks out of box when leader adjusts the size of box.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

I didn't care if he was a genius or a fucking idiot, he was rotting away, and it wasn't fun to watch.

Scar Tissue

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

The Valley of Fear

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.

Walden

The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.

Phil Bredesen

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Ron Ben-Israel

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

Simon Newcomb

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

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

Perform your task and I shall know you. Perform your task and your genius shall befriend the more.

Ogwo David Emenike

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

Oscar Wilde

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.

P.T. Barnum