| Albert
Einstein (1879-1955) |
"Great
spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre
minds." |
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Albert Einstein |
"Intellectuals solve problems;
geniuses prevent them." |
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| Jonathan Swift |
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him
by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." |
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| Schopenhauer |
"Talent is like a marksman who hits a target that others
cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target others cannot
even see." |
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| Lao-tzu |
"To see things in seed, that is genius." |
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| Plato |
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools
because they have to say something." |
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| Anon |
"They laughed at Copernicus. They laughed at Galileo.
But look who's laughing now!" |
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| Carl Sagan |
"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 Write brothers.
But they also laughed at Bozo the clown. (Carl Saga, "Broca's Brain") |
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| Carl Sagan |
"We (mankind) are unlikely to survive if we do not
make full and creative use of our intelligence"
- pg 238 The Dragons of Eden: Speculations of the Evolution of Human
Intelligence". |
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| Ezra
Pound (1885 - 1972), Poet |
"Genius .
. . is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees
one." |
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| Cooley,
Mason |
Genius knows
where the questions are hidden.
(b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City
Aphorisms, Fourth Selection, New York (1987). |
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| Albert
Einstein (1879-1955) |
The difference
between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits. |
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| Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle |
Mediocrity
knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes
genius.
(1859–1930), British author.
The Valley of Fear, ch. 1 (1915). |
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| Thomas
Alva Edison |
Genius is one
per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
(1847–1931), U.S. inventor.
Remark by Edison c. 1903. Harper’s (New York, Sept. 1932). |
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Desiderius
Erasmus
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Everybody hates
a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
(c. 1466–1536), Dutch
humanist. Praise of Folly, ch. 13 (1509). |
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| Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844–1900), |
A man who
possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two
other things: gratitude and cleanliness.
German philosopher, classical
scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke:
Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 5, p. 87, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino
Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Beyond Good and Evil, “Fourth
Part: Maxims and Interludes,” section 74 (1886). |
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| Ezra
Pound (1885–1972), |
A man of genius
has a right to any mode of expression.
U.S. poet, critic. letter, Feb.
4, 1918, to the painter J.B. Yeats (father of W.B. Yeats). quoted in
Humphrey Carpenter, A Serious Character, pt. 2, ch. 10 (1988). |
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| Mark
Twain |
Thousands of
geniuses live and die undiscovered—either by themselves or by others.
[Samuel Langhorne Clemens]
(1835–1910), U.S. author. Autobiography, ch. 27, ed. Charles Neider
(1959). |
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| Albert
Camus |
I don't want to
be a genius - I have enough problems just trying to be a man. |
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