#genius

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

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You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. ↗

— George Eliot

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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. ↗

— Minna Antrim

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My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius. ↗

— Hank Azaria

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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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