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Letter "G" » Genius
«I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.»
«He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero»
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Theologian)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
loquacious, timed, well timed
«If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.»
Author: Robert Quillen
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
accurately, call attention, chiefly, steadily, surveyed, till we
«He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.»
«He whose wisdom exceeds his works, to what may he be likened? To a tree whose branches are numerous but whose roots are few. The wind comes along and uproots it and sweeps it down.»
«Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Genius,
Mediocrity,
Mind,
Spirit
| Keywords:
encountered, Great Spirit, mediocre, opposition, spirits, violent
«Hunger is the handmaid of genius»
«Great geniuses have the shortest biographies»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
biographies, geniuses, shortest
«He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
superlatively, that is to say
«If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Genius,
Learning
| Keywords:
commentator, insignificance, Shakespeare, The Force
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