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Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: “Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life”.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
Quote by -Mother Teresa
Over the centuries, people have placed a wall around mastery. They have called it genius and have thought of it as inaccessible…But that wall is imaginary. This is the real secret: the brain that we possess…was designed to lead us to mastery.
Quote by -Robert Greene
"No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness"
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"What we ever hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men."
Quote by -Charles Darwin
"He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window."
Quote by -Charles Baudelaire
"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning."
Quote by -Oliver Goldsmith
"Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end."
Quote by -Oliver Goldsmith
"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."
Quote by -Ambrose Bierce
"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."
Quote by -Michael Korda
"People need to see the authentic people that are still out there, the genuine people that really care."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony
"Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times"
Quote by -John Burroughs
"I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience."
Quote by -Cameron Diaz
“The difference of natural talents in different men, is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause, as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education. When they came in to the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were, perhaps, very much alike, and neither their parents nor play-fellows could perceive any remarkable difference. About that age, or soon after, they come to be employed in very different occupations. The difference of talents comes then to be taken notice of, and widens by degrees, till at last the vanity of the philosopher is willing to acknowledge scarce any resemblance.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“The difference between the genius of the British constitution, which protects and governs North America, and that of the mercantile company which oppresses and domineers in the East Indies, cannot, perhaps, be better illustrated than by the different state of those countries.”
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
“The difference between the genius of the British constitution which protects and governs North America, and that of the mercantile company which oppresses and domineers in the East Indies, cannot perhaps be better illustrated than by the different state of those countries.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“THE WILD BOAR AND THE FOX A Wild Boar was engaged in whetting his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a Fox came by and, seeing what he was at, said to him, "Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out to-day, and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see." "True, my friend," replied the Boar, "but the instant my life is in danger I shall need to use my tusks. There'll be no time to sharpen them then.”
Quote by -Aesop
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“Some people without possesing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates through it.
Quote by -Thomas Mann
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
Quote by -Samuel Beckett
A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.
Quote by -Soren Kierkegaard
To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.
Quote by -H. L. Mencken