Geniality Quotes

• El verdadero genio reside en la capacidad de evaluación de la información incierta, peligrosa y contradictoria.

  Winston Churchill

  Decision, Genius, Information

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• Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Age, Genius

  Denis Diderot (1966). "Escritos escogidos", New York : Macmillan

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• Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Years, Genius, Original Ideas

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg C. Lichtenberg, 1779 - 1788.

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• The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  People, Genius, Cheerfulness

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• La naturaleza se venga rápidamente de la dura pedantería que encadena sus olas. Ella no es literalista. Cada cosa debe ser tomada genialmente, y debemos estar en la cima de nuestra condición, para entender cualquier cosa correctamente.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Taken, Knowledge

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). "Obras completas Delphi de Ralph Waldo Emerson (Ilustradas)", p.1588, Delphi Classics.

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• Ningún espectáculo merece la pérdida de la genialidad. Es un precio cruel el que pagamos por ciertos artículos de fantasía llamados bellas artes y filosofía.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Kindness, Philosophy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.366

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• [Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you.

  Henry James

  Science, Noise, Biographies

  Henry James, Jack Kerouac (1999). “Henry James: A Life in Letters”, Viking Press

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• The old fashioned family physician and general practitioner ... was a splendid figure and useful person in his day; but he was badly trained, he was often ignorant, he made many mistakes, for one cannot by force of character and geniality of person make a diagnosis of appendicitis, or recognize streptococcus infection.

  Charles Loomis Dana

  Mistake, Character, Science

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• I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie within the bounds of our nature because we perpetrate both, in spades. I only advance a structural claim that social stability rules nearly all the time and must be based on an overwhelmingly predominant (but tragically ignored) frequency of genial acts, and that geniality is therefore our usual and preferred response nearly all the time. [...] [T]he center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Kindness, Lying, Usual

  "Eight Little Piggies". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness", p. 282, 1993.

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• Ernest Bevin poseía muchas de las características más fuertes de la raza inglesa. Su hombría, su sentido común, su tosca sencillez, su robustez y su buen corazón, su fácil genialidad y generosidad, todas ellas son cualidades que los que vivimos en el sur de esta famosa isla contemplamos con admiración.

  Ernest Bevin

  Heart, Islands, Race

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• Every now and then, I'll meet an escapee, someone who has broken free of self-centeredness and lit out for the territory of compassion. You've met them, too, those people who seem to emit a steady stream of, for want of a better word, love-vibes. As soon as you come within range, you feel embraced, accepted for who you are. For those of us who suspect that you rarely get something for nothing, such geniality can be discomfiting. Yet it feels so good to be around them. They stand there, radiating photons of goodwill, and despite yourself you beam back, and the world, in a twinkling, changes.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Life, Acceptance, Compassion

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• No es muy agradable admitirlo, pero la violencia doméstica tiene su utilidad. Tan cruda y desatada, rasga el velo de civilización que se interpone entre nosotros tanto como hace posible la vida. Tal vez sea un pobre sustituto de la pasión que nos gusta ensalzar, pero el verdadero amor tiene más en común con el odio y la rabia que con la genialidad o la cortesía.

  Lionel Shriver

  Real, Agradable, Pasión

  Lionel Shriver (2011). "Tenemos que hablar de Kevin", p.196, Counterpoint Press.

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• Si quieres ver la diferencia entre la contribución [del jardín] y la del jardinero, pon la hierba más común que crece al lado de sus azadas, rastrillos, tijeras y un paquete de herbicida; habrás puesto la belleza, la energía y la fecundidad al lado de cosas muertas y estériles. Del mismo modo, nuestra "decencia y sentido común" se muestran grises y mortecinos al lado de la genialidad del amor.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Weed, Cutting

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• The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States.

  James A. Michener

  Cities, San Francisco, Political

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