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Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us read more
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland (used read more
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),
No great genius is without an admixture of madness.
No great genius is without an admixture of madness.
Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest
excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; read more
Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest
excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he
throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every
human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there
Seduced me first to me a wicked player.
Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there
Seduced me first to me a wicked player.
