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Genius Quotes
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age which means never losing your enthusiasm"
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Aldous Huxley
"Execution is the chariot of genius "
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William Blake
"Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius "
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William Blake
"Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness."
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Michel de Montaigne
"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be"
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Edgar Allan Poe
"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust"
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Arthur Schopenhauer
"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
"We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary."
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Agatha Christie
"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."
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Ezra Pound
"Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny."
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Arthur Schopenhauer
"Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius"
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George Sand
"A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate."
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Steven Pressfield
"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality"
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John Stuart Mill
"Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this, when I have a subject in mind, I study it profoundly"
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Alexander Hamilton
"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
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Charles Bukowski
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