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"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
"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 one of the many forms of insanity."	Cesare Lombroso
"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone."	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The finest gift you can give anyone is encoragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century."	Sidney Madwed
"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
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"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
"Genius is perseverence in disguise."	Mike Newlin
"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
"Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age."	Napoleon Bonaparte
"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
"A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition."	Charles Caleb Colton
"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense."	Josh Billings
"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."	E.B. White
"Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius."	George Bernard Shaw
"Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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