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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Genius
Thomas Carlyle

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Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
Genius
C. W. Ceran

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Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.
Genius
Chao Chang

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Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.
Comedy and Comedians
Lita Grey Chaplin

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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
Genius
Lydia M. Child

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Genius is independent of situation.
Genius
Charles Churchill

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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Humor
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Ability
Charles Caleb Colton

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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Genius
Leonardo Da Vinci

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Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
Genius
Edward Dahlberg

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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
Genius
Robertson Davies

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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
Translation
Sir John Denham

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
Happiness
Denis Diderot

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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Desperation
Benjamin Disraeli

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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm
Benjamin Disraeli

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Genius, when young, is divine.
Genius
Benjamin Disraeli

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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Mediocrity
Benjamin Disraeli

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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Genius
Benjamin Disraeli

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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Genius
Isaac Disraeli

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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Talent
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
Genius
John Dryden

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Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
Genius
John Dryden

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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Genius
Thomas A. Edison

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Albert Einstein

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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
Genius
George Eliot

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[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun