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• In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Work, India, Mediocrity

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.725, Library of Alexandria

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• I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

  Charles de Lint

  Thinking, Mad, Artistic

  "Memory and Dream". Book by Charles de Lint, 1994.

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• True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Fall, Lines, Artistic

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.287

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• Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Giants, Talent, Leap

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1859). “Lectures on Subjects Connected with Literature and Life”, p.162

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• Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Science, Lamps, Carrie

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.23

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• Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous.

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Execution, Simultaneous

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• Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It is also the universal link into genius.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Art, Bridges, Ideas

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• Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

  Josh Billings

  Common Sense, Comedy, Elegant

  Josh Billings (1953). “Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh”

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• The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Literature, May, Ends

  Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.123

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• Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Wisdom, Powerful, Intelligent

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches”

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• Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Discipline, Receiving

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.222, 谷月社

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• Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1966). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1824-1838”, p.197, Harvard University Press

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• Common sense is the genius of humanity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Meaningful, Common Sense, Humanity

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• Rules and models destroy genius and art.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Freedom, Teaching

  'Sketches and Essays' (1839) 'On Taste'

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• Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

  Heinrich Heine

  Fiction, Literature, Shapes

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• A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Ruined, Has Beens

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.313

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• Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Path, Deviation

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “Lincoln Speeches”, p.41, Penguin

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• Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Men, Earth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

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• It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Doe, Literature, Privilege

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• People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

  Jerry Lewis

  Hate, People, Hatred

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• Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

  Cesare Lombroso

  Insanity, Form

  "Born under Saturn: the character and conduct of artists : a documented history from antiquity to the French Revolution". Book by Margot Wittkower and Rudolf Wittkower, 1963.

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• Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Art, Husband

  1860 The Conduct of Life,'Wealth'.

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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.

  Max Beerbohm

  Spiritual, Men, Affliction

  And Even Now (1920) "No. 2, The Pines"

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• Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

  Joseph Addison

  Book, Legacy, Mankind

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.216

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