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Genius Quotes
Brilliance, and what it takes to keep it.
This page treats genius as something both rare and slightly absurd, a reminder that even a cultivated mind stays subject to ordinary conditions, and a wry claim that monogamy demands more talent than acting does, close to Intelligence quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- I Think
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I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.
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Joss Whedon who created 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer,' 'Angel,' and all that... he is a genius.
- Dog
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The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!
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People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and... I'm not really.
- Go
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Indians take great pleasure in celebrating a genius, and then go into mindless criticism once the celebrity starts doing well.
- Men
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And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
- Man
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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
- Poverty
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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
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By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
- Men
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The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be.' Neither excuse holds. The first is beside the point; the second is altogether wrong.
- Rise
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A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
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