genius

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The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.

- Huxley, Aldous

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Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

- Dahlberg, Edward

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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

- Joseph Addison

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

- Simms, William Gilmore

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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.

- Charles Baudelaire

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First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

- Joyce, James

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The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

- Dworkin, Andrea

10.

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

- George Steiner

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One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

- Foster, John W.

12.

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

- Marden, Orison Swett

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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

- Picasso, Pablo

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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as Soho poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

- Crisp, Quentin

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Genius is born--not paid.

- Oscar Wilde

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My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

- Lincoln, Mary Todd

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It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

- Stein, Gertrude

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A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.

- Thomas A. Edison

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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater