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Quotes about genius
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. (Bierce Ambrose)
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. (Bierce Ambrose)
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The greatest genius is the most indebted person. (Bierce Ambrose)
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him. (Bierce Ambrose)
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius. (Bierce Ambrose)
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. (Bierce Ambrose)
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. (Bierce Ambrose)
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer. (Bierce Ambrose)
Accept your genius and say what you think. (Bierce Ambrose)
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness. (Bierce Ambrose)
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. (Bierce Ambrose)
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant. (Bierce Ambrose)
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. (Bierce Ambrose)
The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth. (Bierce Ambrose)
The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources. (Bierce Ambrose)
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought. (Bierce Ambrose)
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little. (Bierce Ambrose)
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen. (Bierce Ambrose)
Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties. (Bierce Ambrose)
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction. (Bierce Ambrose)
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. (Bierce Ambrose)
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