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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso
Positive
Genius
Negative
Value
Every
Price
Leads
Terms
Hiroshima
Einstein
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo
Genius
Seen
Whatever
Mediocrity
Too
Everything
Lofty
Easy
Admire
About
Horror
Sacred
Hills
Well
Masterpiece
Mountain
Grand
Appalling
Assembly
Near
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt Whitman
Genius
Power
Indescribable
About
Noblest
Freshness
Person
Illiterate
Expressive
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Henry David Thoreau
Nature
Genius
Divinity
Hand
Escapes
Snowflake
Full
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
Antonin Artaud
Life
People
Genius
Every
Solution
Madman
Only
Delirium
Had
Head
Idea
Him
Misunderstood
His
Shining
Frightened
Prepared
Whom
Whose
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon
Conversation
Solitude
Genius
School
Understanding
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Genius
Power
Individuality
New
Expressing
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
James Madison
Science
Genius
Mind
Having
Highest
Studies
Female
Female Mind
Been
Erudition
Order
Cannot
Capacity
Doubted
Works
Illustrated
Sufficiently
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci
Work
Genius
Men
Active
Lofty
Most
Least
Doing
You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.
Michael Dell
Success
You
Genius
College
Framework
Visionary
Dream
Graduate
Just
Successful
Even
Need
You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.
Vivienne Westwood
Love
Art
You
People
Genius
World
Amazing
Plants
Out
Find
About
Invest
Names
Know
Read
Got
Go
Amazing People
Human
Race
To Love
Galleries
Human Race
Whole
Start
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man
Confidence
Genius
Own
Our
Inspires
Boundless
Powers
Us
Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
Rush Limbaugh
Thoughts
Genius
Sometimes
Old
Few
Own
Our
Out
Cases
Something
Something New
Both
Habits
Stuck
Contact
New
Like
Ideas
Know
Go
Being
Want
Cannot
Old Ideas
Us
Even
Let Go
Beliefs
Position
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
An Wang
Success
Genius
Sense
Consistent
More
Than
Common
Common Sense
Success Is
Function
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
Aneurin Bevan
Time
Genius
Made
Only
Could
Mainly
Island
Fish
Surrounded
Same
Same Time
Shortage
Produce
Coal
Organizing
The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
Auguste Rodin
Genius
Better
Impossible
Men
Others
Worse
Say
Drawing
Some
Color
Souls
Than
Differ
Them
Modes
Much
Expression
Among
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.
Carl Jung
Genius
Better
Sometimes
Indeed
Oneself
Between
Talent
Qualities
Been
His
Discrepancy
Human
Whether
Little
Might
Ask
Less
Human Qualities
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Cesare Lombroso
Genius
Insanity
Forms
Many
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller
Genius
Intelligence
Every
True
Bound
Naive
True Genius
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
You
Genius
Complicated
Rest
Stupid
Possibility
Something
Only
Never
Missing
Make
Wonder
American
Moves
Which
Might
Us
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
George Matthew Adams
Character
Man
Soul
Genius
Money
Unhappy
Nothing
Remain
Talent
Greater
Fame
Friends
Than
Die
May
Bankrupt
Useless
Comparatively
Compare
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love
Truth
Genius
First
Demanded
Last
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott
Good
Great
You
Genius
Will
Long
Power
Goodness
Virtues
Danger
Gifts
Finest
Charm
Spoils
Conceit
Talent
Real
Overlooked
Little
Them
Modesty
Much
Many
Need
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Marcus Aurelius
Genius
Understanding
Imagination
Aptitude
Rarely
Coming
Often
Inherited
Reason
Found
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
W. H. Murray
You
Genius
Power
Whatever
Dream
Magic
Begin
Boldness
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
William Gilmore Simms
Death
Genius
Criticism
Dread
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