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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

Immanuel Kant
ability taught genius

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

Irving Layton
wordsworth written genius
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. by Isaac D'Israeli

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Isaac D'Israeli
companion genius fortune

The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.

Isaac D'Israeli
style genius art

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

Isaac Mayer Wise
intention genius self
It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius w... by Iris Murdoch

It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.

Iris Murdoch
junk easier genius

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

Isaac D'Israeli
care genius men
A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. by Isaac Stern

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

Isaac Stern
talent genius men

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

Isaac D'Israeli
genius age education
Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often orig... by Isaac D'Israeli

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

Isaac D'Israeli
events genius feelings
Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part... by Isaac D'Israeli

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.

Isaac D'Israeli
genius solitude nurse
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius c... by Isaac D'Israeli

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

Isaac D'Israeli
arise genius men

One genius is about all a house will hold.

Isabel Paterson
genius house
Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or tal... by Isadora Duncan

Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

Isadora Duncan
genius energy determination
Nature is full of genius, full of divinity. by Henry David Thoreau

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

Henry David Thoreau
divinity genius
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned ph... by Horace

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

Horace
genius greek art
No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuit... by Isaac Watts

No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.

Isaac Watts
genius teaching science
All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insis... by Isadora Duncan

All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.

Isadora Duncan
my-lover genius lovers

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

Italo Calvino
finding-the-one genius inspiration
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much g... by J. B. Priestley

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

J. B. Priestley
too-much genius clever
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