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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, speech, Jan. 27, 1838
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
THOMAS EDISON, Life
Great intellects are skeptical.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, The Antichrist
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Method of Nature
Genius is of no country.
CHARLES CHURCHILL, The Rosciad
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left.
OSCAR LEVANT, The Educator's Book of Quotes
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Conduct of Life
Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI, Notes of a Dirty Old Man
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.
MOZART
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