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"Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright."
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"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable."
"All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience."
"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
"First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it."
"Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence."
"Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!"
"Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes."
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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."
"People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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