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"Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."
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"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."
"Genius is finding the invisible link between things."
"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."
"The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do."
"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."
"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
"A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it."
"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."
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"Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses."
"Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics."
"Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'"
"The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities."
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