#genius

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius. ↗

— Henry Adams

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A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

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Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. ↗

— Maude Adams

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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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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it. ↗

— William R. Alger

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