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Genius

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Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.--Doris Lessing
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.--E. F. Schumacker
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.--Carl Sagan
Childhood and genius have the same master-organ in common--inquisitiveness.--Edwin Bulwar-Lytton
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones of genius.--Elbert Hubbard (The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard)
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few people of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.--Seneca (Letters to Lucilius)
The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Journal, May 3, 1841)
Do you know what makes a man a genius? The ability to see the obvious.--Charles McCarry
Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius--versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.--Mary Russell Mitford (in The Life of Mary Russell Mitford by L'Estrange)
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.--Isaac D'Israeli
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.--William James
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.--Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.--Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Earl of Lytton (Last Words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet)
The genius is making a way out of no way.--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will.--Frank L. Wright
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.--Thomas Alva Edison
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.--George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.--Henry Ford
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.--F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.--Ezra Pound
Genius lies not in thinking of ideas, but in the ability to execute the ideas.--Jane McElyea
Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.--William James
Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.--Walter Lippmann (A Preface to Politics)
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.--Benjamin Franklin
I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.--Soren Kierkegaard
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.--Gertrude Stein
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Encyclopedia")
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.--James Joyce ("Scylla and Charybdis" Ulysses)
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.--William Hazlitt (Characteristics in the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims)
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.--Elbert Hubbard
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.--John Foster
Our creative genius is the fountainhead of originality. It fires our compulsion to evolve. It inspires us to challenge norms. Creative genius is about flying to new heights on untested wings. It is about the danger of crashing.--Gordon MacKenzie
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.--Arthur Koestler
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.--Aldous Huxley
To see things in the seed, that is genius.--Lao-tzu
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.--Shakti Gawain
What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?--Bette Greene