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"He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero."
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"Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others."
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"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."
"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts, they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."
"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."
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