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“Accordingly genius is an intellect which has become untrue to its destination.” Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation
“To a great mind, nothing is little” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“And beauty is a form of genius—is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The unrecognized genius-that's an old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius recognized too well?” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“And then, again, the more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.” Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation
“No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on Earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before.” Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address
“We have no need for genius—genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh…” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
“the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“To be great is to be misunderstood.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
“The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“All children in some form or another have genius; the trick is to bring it out in them.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography
“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.” Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot
“Our day in Toulouse with the Airbus A380 has since brought my mind back time and time again to Howard Hughes and that film and has made me realise just how slim the line is between genius and insanity and between determination and stubbornness.” Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity
“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, —that is genius.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“Baby . . . I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.” Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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