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"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."	Denis Diderot
"Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius."	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation."	Max Gluckman
"The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people."	Phil Gramm
"What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?"	Bette Greene
"If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators."	William Hazlitt
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."	Elbert Hubbard
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."	William James
"Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."	William James
"Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that."	Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
"Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics."	Cesare Lombroso
"Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back."	Edgar Lee Masters
"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing."	Gamal Abdel Nasser
"In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing."	John Henry Newman
"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."	Oscar Wilde
"A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it."	Author Unknown
"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."	E.B. White
"Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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E.B. White	Edgar Lee Masters	Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
Elbert Hubbard	Eugene Delacroix	F(rancis) Scott
Gamal Abdel Nasser	George Bernard Shaw	George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Georg Christopher Lichtenberg	Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Havelock Ellis	Hoshang N. Akhtar	James Joyce
Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Henry Newman
Joseph Addison	Josh Billings	Max Gluckman
Michael J. Gelb	Mike Newlin	Napoleon Bonaparte
Oscar Levant	Oscar Wilde	Phil Gramm
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sidney Madwed
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin	Thomas Alva Edison
Victor Hugo	William Hazlitt	William James
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Wystan Hugh Auden	(John) Calvin Coolidge
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