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Great Genius Quotes About Brilliance and Legacy

On brilliance, legacy, and madness

These great genius quotes explore the link between Brilliance and eccentricity, suggesting genius rarely arrives without some strangeness.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

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Nov 07, 2020

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.

Quotes by Matthew Sweet

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Nov 07, 2020

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Nov 07, 2020

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Quotes by Joseph Addison

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Nov 07, 2020

Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until my youngest child went to school, and then I began - the first morning - and I've never stopped.

Quotes by Jane Gardam

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Nov 07, 2020

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

Quotes by Cesare Lombroso

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Nov 07, 2020

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

One quote even praises a novelist's rare gift for balancing family life and Creativity without needing complete solitude to write.

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