Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time
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When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius
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Eccentricities of genius.
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To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
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Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
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Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience, and spectator, as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to
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There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
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Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
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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.
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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.
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Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind
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I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness
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Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate
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Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and never can be taught
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Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
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He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
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There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded
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Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic
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Ridicule is the Burden of Genius.
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No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius.
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Genius is independent of situation.
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