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Letter "G" » genius
«Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.»
Author: E. F. Schumacker
| About:
Ability,
Intelligence
| Keywords:
bigger, complex, complexes, direction, genius, intelligent, move in, opposite, touch, violent
«Genius - the ability to produce fantastic amounts of equally fantastic bullshit that all makes perfect sense»
«Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.»
Author: Joe E. Lewis
(Comedian, Singer)
| Keywords:
Adlai Stevenson, genius, has a, People Are Wrong, Right Thing, saying, Stevenson, The Right Time
«Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.»
«Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
faculty, Faculty of, genius, perceiving, The Faculty
«Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.»
«Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
Alexander, before Christ, Caesar, Charlemagne, christ, creations, Empire, empires, force, foundation, founded, genius, hour, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus Only, millions, myself, rest
«Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
an explanation, beauty, call, dark, explanation, facts, form, genius, higher, high water, indeed, moon, needs, reflection, shell, shells, silver, silvering, springtime, sunlight, The Great, The Moon, water
«Accept your genius and say what you think.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
accept, genius, it accepts, say, think
«Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Common sense,
Genius
| Keywords:
clothes, common, common sense, dressed, genius, get dressed, work-clothes, working
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