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• Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

  William Hazlitt

  Humanity, Intelligence, Use

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.141

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• I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Dream, Courage

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• Hunger is the handmaid of genius

  Mark Twain

  Hunger, Handmaids

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

  Robert Henri

  Play, Growth, Degrees

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The lucky person passes for a genius.

  Euripides

  Gambling, Lucky, Literature

  Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• Genius: the superhuman in man.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Superhuman

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• An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

  Andre Malraux

  Art, Freedom, Dare

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• Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Men, Individuality, Wicked World

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• It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

  Rene Descartes

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

  "Discourse on the Method". Book by Rene Descartes (Part 1), 1637.

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• Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

  Denis Diderot

  Creativity, Mean, Reflection

  John Hope Mason, Denis Diderot (1982). “The irresistible Diderot”

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• His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Inspiration, Ninety Nine

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• You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Men, Imagination

  "Daniel Deronda".

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• Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Biographies, Talent, Biographers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.635, Library of America

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• All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

  W. H. Murray

  Commitment, Misunderstood, Boldness And Courage

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• Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Talent

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• To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Talent, Mark, Difficult

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• The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

  Otto Weininger

  Running, Madness

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.184, Рипол Классик

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• Common sense is genius in homespun.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Common Sense, Common

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• Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Men, Doe, Every Man

  "Beerbohm Tree" by Hesketh Pearson, (p. 110), 1956.

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• Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Would Be, Taste, Teach

  'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 3 (14 December 1770)

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• What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Definitions, Judgment, Eternity

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 92, 1799.

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• To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

  Adrienne Clarkson

  Mean, Civilization, Doe

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• It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Uncles, Mind, Taste

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• One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Existence, Enjoy

  Ernst Hans Gombrich (1978). “The Story of Art”

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• I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Talent

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