There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

Tag: humor insanity genius

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Tag: love genius

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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan

Tag: humor laughter philosophy genius

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Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

Woody Guthrie

Tag: genius

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I'm a misunderstood genius."
"What's misunderstood?"
"Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

Bill Watterson

Tag: genius calvin-and-hobbes misunderstood

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WHORES.
Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.

Julian Barnes

Tag: genius syphilis whores

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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.

Ernst F. Schumacher

Tag: inspirational genius complexity violence elegance simplicity

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These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

Abigail Adams

Tag: intelligence carpe-diem genius trial heroism challenge trying-times

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When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

[Thoughts on Various Subjects]

Jonathan Swift

Tag: stupidity genius dunces

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It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Gertrude Stein

Tag: humor genius

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