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• Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Profound, Miracle, Conviction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

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• Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a personality characteristic. It is not something that a person has, nor even something that someone is. Those in whom we recognize genius commonly disclaim it. A universal characteristic of genius is humility. The genius has always attributed his insights to some higher influence.

  David R. Hawkins

  Humility, Personality, Style

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• Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.

  David R. Hawkins

  Difficulty, Acknowledge, Recognizing

  David R. Hawkins “Along the Path to Enlightenment”, Hay House, Inc

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• Great men grow tired of contentedness.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Tired, Men, Contentedness

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• Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

  W. H. Auden

  Inspirational, Want, Mortals

  In Dag Hammarskj"ld Markings (1964) foreword

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  Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

  Samuel Johnson

  Education, Curiosity, Lexicographer

  The Rambler, No. 103, March 12, 1751.

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• There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

  Walt Whitman

  Education, Humble, Illiterate Person

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Mistake, Creativity, Science

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.110

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• Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Lying, Science, Night

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• Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

  Samuel Butler

  Might, Kind, Trouble

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 11

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• Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Names, Feet

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• Genius lasts longer than beauty

  Oscar Wilde

  Lasts, Intellectualism

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.16, Diversion Books

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• …because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Energy, Want, Talent

  Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy (2013). “Little Women: An Annotated Edition”, p.502, Harvard University Press

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• When you make a choice, you change the future.

  Deepak Chopra

  Wisdom, Law Of Attraction, Choices

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from May 13, 2011

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• Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Inspirational, Patience, Design

  See Thomas Carlyle 19; Edison 2; Jane Ellice Hopkins 1

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• "Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Perseverance, Brightness, Divine

  "The papers of Woodrow Wilson".

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• The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

  William Hazlitt

  Power, Knowing, Done

  William Hazlitt (1857). “The Miscellaneous Works of William Hazlitt”, p.38

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• There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Soul, Delight

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.357

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• Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Men, Thinking

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• Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Labor, Deserve

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.93, Penguin

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• The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Loss, Men, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2125, Delphi Classics

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• When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius

  William Crashaw

  Leadership, Courage, Imagination

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• Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

  Victor Hugo

  Mean, Becoming One, Available

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• Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

  Madame de Stael

  Quality, Noble, Innocence

  "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.

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