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Quotes about genius
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. (Bierce Ambrose)
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? (Bierce Ambrose)
Since when was genius found respectable? (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience. (Bierce Ambrose)
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Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius. (Bierce Ambrose)
A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. (Bierce Ambrose)
Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof. (Bierce Ambrose)
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius is independent of situation. (Bierce Ambrose)
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. (Bierce Ambrose)
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination. (Bierce Ambrose)
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. (Bierce Ambrose)
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius. (Bierce Ambrose)
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien. (Bierce Ambrose)
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. (Bierce Ambrose)
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing them -- that what has been said has still not been said enough. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. (Bierce Ambrose)
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius, when young, is divine. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius must be born, and never can be taught. (Bierce Ambrose)
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. (Bierce Ambrose)
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught. (Bierce Ambrose)
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