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- If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
- Larry Leissner
- The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits
- Anonymous
- Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
- E. F. Schumacher
- 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 Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
- Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
- An Wang
- Since when was genius found respectable?
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
- Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.
- Unknown
- Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
- When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Thoughts on Various Subjects
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