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John Dryden2 quotes
Great wits are sure to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide. — John Dryden · 1681Genius must be born, and never can be taught. — John Dryden · 1694Oscar Wilde2 quotes
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Beauty is a form of genius,—is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell, we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it. — Oscar Wilde · 1890William Blake2 quotes
Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius. — William Blake · 1788Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of Genius. — William Blake · 1793Aristotle1 quote
There is no great genius without some touch of madness. — Aristotle · 60Arthur Schopenhauer1 quote
The man of talent is like the marksman who hits a mark the others cannot hit; the man of genius is like the marksman who hits a mark they cannot even see. — Arthur Schopenhauer · 1819Benjamin Franklin1 quote
Genius without Education is like Silver in the Mine. — Benjamin Franklin · 1750Carl Sagan1 quote
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. — Carl Sagan · 1979Charles Churchill1 quote
Genius is of no country. — Charles Churchill · 1761Elbert Hubbard1 quote
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. — Elbert Hubbard · 1911Friedrich Nietzsche1 quote
One must have chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1883James Joyce1 quote
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. — James Joyce · 1922Jonathan Swift1 quote
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. — Jonathan Swift · 1711Ralph Waldo Emerson1 quote
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1850Rene Descartes1 quote
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues. — Rene Descartes · 1637Thomas Edison1 quote
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. — Thomas Edison · 1932William James1 quote
Genius... Means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. — William James · 1890