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Quotes about genius
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When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius is an African who dreams up snow. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. (Bierce Ambrose)
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. (Bierce Ambrose)
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Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. (Bierce Ambrose)
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius is eternal patience. (Bierce Ambrose)
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none. (Bierce Ambrose)
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. (Bierce Ambrose)
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. (Bierce Ambrose)
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. (Bierce Ambrose)
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. (Bierce Ambrose)
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. (Bierce Ambrose)
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. (Bierce Ambrose)
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. (Bierce Ambrose)
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him. (Bierce Ambrose)
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius is childhood recaptured. (Bierce Ambrose)
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. (Bierce Ambrose)
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. (Bierce Ambrose)
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