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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them drawing and color are better or worse than in others.”
Auguste Rodin
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When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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India is Gandhi's country of birth; South Africa his country of adoption. He was both an Indian and a South African citizen. Both countries contributed to his intellectual and moral genius, and he shaped the liberatory movements in both colonial theaters.”
Nelson Mandela
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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.”
John Stuart Mill
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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.”
Virginia Woolf
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The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.”
Henry David Thoreau
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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.”
Henry David Thoreau
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.”
John Stuart Mill
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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”
Henry David Thoreau
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
Benjamin Franklin
education
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
Oscar Wilde
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.”
Charlie Chaplin
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Individual
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
Albert Einstein
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What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”
Eugene Delacroix
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My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.”
Mark Twain
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What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.”
Pablo Picasso
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