#geniuses

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be. ↗

— James Lipton

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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left. ↗

— Oscar Levant

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. ↗

— Robert Musil

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Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages. ↗

— Bob Packwood

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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. ↗

— Alan Perlis

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