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So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius: Author Unknown
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.: Hannah More
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.: Chang Ch'ao
The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the "innocence of eye" that means so much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and characteristics as though each were new-minted from the hand of God instead of sorting them quickly into dusty categories and pigeon-holing them without wonder or surprise; to feel situations so immediately and keenly that the word "trite" has hardly any meaning for him; and always to see "the correspondences between things" of which Aristotle spoke two thousand years ago.: Dorothea Brande

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