Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Men Quotes, Genius Quotes

Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.

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Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

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Adversity is the midwife of genius

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Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

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The genius is in making the complex simple.

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

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Common sense is as rare as genius.

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alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

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Talent imitates, genius steals.

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My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.

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Genius is intellect constructive.

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Talent borrows, genius steals!

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Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

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God is the poetic genius in each of us.

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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

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For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

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Genius is power, talent is applicability.

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Genius Borrows nobly.

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