To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one
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He whose wisdom exceeds his works, to what may he be likened? To a tree whose branches are numerous but whose roots are few. The wind comes along and uproots it and sweeps it down.
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Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left
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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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Genius.. Is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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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.
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The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
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Bach is the supreme genius of music.. This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it
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Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
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It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big
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Hunger is the handmaid of genius
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Since when was genius found respectable?
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow
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Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving
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Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
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Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times
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To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius
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