"Every man is a potential genius until he does something."

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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Genius, Madness, Statesman

"One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Genius, Wisdom, Knowledge, Truth, Power

"If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

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"Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you."

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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last."

"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."

"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."

"One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius."

"If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators."

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."

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"People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty."

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"Cynicism is the humour of hatred."

"He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him."

"A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent."

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"Every man is a potential genius until he does something."