"Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought."

Genius, Thought, Virtue, Humility

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"Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought."

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"When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going."

Garry Marshall, American Actor

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"As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius."

Ron Chernow, American Author

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"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"

Charles de Lint, Canadian Writer

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"Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius."

Rich Lowry, American Editor

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"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

Joseph Joubert, French Writer

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"Genius is nothing but continued attention."

Claude Adrien Helvetius, French Philosopher

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"An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius."

Billy Wilder, American Director

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"I am the farthest thing from a computer genius."

Jonathan Brandis, American Actor

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"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."

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"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance."

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"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."

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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

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"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."

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"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."

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"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."

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"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."

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"To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile."

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