1,271 Quotes About Genius
- Author Rana Dasgupta
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How many stopped-up men and women does it take to produce one Einstein? Ten? A thousand? A hundred thousand? ... So this is what Einstein meant when he looked me in the eye that day and said, I would be nothing without you. It was not success he saw written in my face. He saw, rather, that I would never accomplish anything at all.
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- Author Jim Manzi
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Textbooks are not so much wrong as they are conventional – and an entrepreneurial idea must be contrarian.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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If ingenuity is an indicator of how much we love someone, then the story of Christmas is about as ingenious as you can get.
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- Author Georges Cuvier
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Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Would it not also be glorious for man to burst the limits of time, and, by a few observations, to ascertain the history of this world, and the series of events which preceded the birth of the human race?
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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And when we stand in the middle of whatever wilderness happens to be ours, we look around and ask, what plan got us here and what plan will get us out? The former is likely the product of our ignorant contrivances, while the latter is a formulation of God's phenomenal genius. And have we ever considered that we might be in the wilderness because we’ve confused the two?
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- Author Rich DiSilvio
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Yielding to convention yields nothing new.
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- Author Lamine Pearlheart
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Many times, in life, you have opportunities and options, but not control. And when you are lucky the illusion of control is given to you; this is when you make symphonies.
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- Author Amit Kalantri
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Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.
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- Author Bell Hooks
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What we as women need to ask ourselves is: "In what context within patriarchy do women create space where we can protect our genius?" It's a very, very difficult question.
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