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Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
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Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
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George Steiner
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Thoughts on Various Subjects
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
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Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
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William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
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Robertson Davies
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
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Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "Self Reliance"
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