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• It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.

  Jim Shepard

  Intuition, Instinct, Turns

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• There are many perks to living for twenty-one centuries, and foremost among them is bearing witness to the rare birth of genius. It invariably goes like this: Someone shrugs off the weight of his cultural traditions, ignores the baleful stares of authority, and does something his countrymen think to be completely batshit insane. Of those, Galileo was my personal favorite. Van Gogh comes in second, but he really was batshit insane.

  Kevin Hearne

  Thinking, Insane, Twenties

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.12, Del Rey

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• Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Business, Extremes

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• Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Education, Teacher, Learning

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• There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Acceptance, Silence, Hinder

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.350, Delphi Classics

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• True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

  Arlene Croce

  Acceptance, Expectations, True Genius

  Arlene Croce (2003). “Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader”, p.48, Macmillan

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• Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Lying, Acceptance, Feelings

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• Necessity is often the spur to genius.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Spurs

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• We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are freedom's models in a searching world. We can be freedom's missionaries in a doubting world. The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

  Barry Goldwater

  War, People, Doubt

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• The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

  Alexander Smith

  Life And Love, Flipping A Coin, Needs

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.45, tredition

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• I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

  Leo Szilard

  Two, Next Steps, Principles

  "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace". Life magazine, Vol. 51, No. 9, p. 79, September 01, 1961.

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• There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Real, Progress, Hierarchy

  "Westwood ho!" by Alix Sharkey, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2001.

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• You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Art, Race, Names

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• In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

  Steve Wozniak

  Economy, Mathematics, Yeah

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• Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Differences, Unity, Talent

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• Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.

  Harlan Coben

  Reality, Thinking, Insanity

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• To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

  Joyce Cary

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Forget

  Joyce Cary (1958). “First trilogy: Herself surprised: To be a pilgrim. The horse's mouth”

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• The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Dream, Creative, Impossible

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• Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Mystery, Abyss, Edges

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• The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Definitions, Complexes

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• One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Ignorant, Routine, Mediocrity

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. … The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That’s genius.

  Sam Shepard

  Hate, Temptation, Why Not

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• With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.

  George Carlin

  Evil, Training, Evil Genius

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• Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  People, Stupidity, Sublime

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• Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Art, Military, War

  George Stillman Hillard (1864). “Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army”, p.367, Gale Cengage Learning

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