#genius

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. ↗

— Simone Weil

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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery. ↗

— Otto Weininger

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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. ↗

— William Godwin

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Common sense is the genius of humanity. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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