#genius

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How many stopped-up men and women does it take to produce one Einstein? Ten? A thousand? A hundred thousand? ... So this is what Einstein meant when he looked me in the eye that day and said, I would be nothing without you. It was not success he saw written in my face. He saw, rather, that I would never accomplish anything at all.


Rana Dasgupta


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I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.


Joseph Lancaster


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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.


Walter Lippmann


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Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.


Cesare Lombroso


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Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.


Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton


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Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.


Cesare Lombroso


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The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.


Cesare Lombroso


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Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.


Cesare Lombroso


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Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.


Mary MacLane


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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.


James Madison


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