"Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright."

Genius, Virtue

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"Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius."

John Philip Sousa, American Musician

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"There is no off position on the genius switch."

David Letterman, American Comedian

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"It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."

Ezra Pound, American Poet

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"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."

Christopher Morley, American Author

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"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."

Ezra Pound, American Poet

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"Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."

Henry B. Adams, American Historian

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"I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that."

Randy Newman, American Comedian

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"All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

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"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible."

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"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans."

Perception

"People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding."

People

"Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere."

People

"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead."

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"If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?"

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"There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few."

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"Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius."

"There is no off position on the genius switch."

"It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention."

"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."

"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."

"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."

"Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force."

"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."

"I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that."

"All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience."

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"Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means."

"The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses."

"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans."

"People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding."

"Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere."

"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead."

"If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?"

"There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few."