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"First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Whatever you can do, or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"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
"Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought."	Alexander Hamilton
"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 is nothing but continued attention."	Claude Adrien Helvetius
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."	Elbert Hubbard
"Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite."	Victor Hugo
"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite."	Victor Hugo
"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
"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."	James Joyce
"Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that."	Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
"There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."	Oscar Levant
"It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists."	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
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