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Quotes about genius
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. (Bierce Ambrose)
Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite. (Bierce Ambrose)
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The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds. (Bierce Ambrose)
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. (Bierce Ambrose)
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way. (Bierce Ambrose)
Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police. (Bierce Ambrose)
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. (Bierce Ambrose)
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. (Bierce Ambrose)
To see things in the seed is genius. (Bierce Ambrose)
To see things in the seed is genius. (Bierce Ambrose)
Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last. (Bierce Ambrose)
The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers. (Bierce Ambrose)
What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty. (Bierce Ambrose)
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. (Bierce Ambrose)
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. (Bierce Ambrose)
All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius. (Bierce Ambrose)
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us. (Bierce Ambrose)
Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius is eternal patience. (Bierce Ambrose)
There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry. (Bierce Ambrose)
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. (Bierce Ambrose)
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