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Van Wyck Brooks

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

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Donna Grant

"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fast talking + in the same full of knowledge."

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Donna Grant

"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."

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Donna Grant

"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."

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Donna Grant

"Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal."

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Donna Grant

"The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas."

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Donna Grant

"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."

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

Bible

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

People

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Van Wyck Brooks
"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

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Van Wyck Brooks
"Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means."

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

Man

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

War

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Van Wyck Brooks
"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

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

Genius

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Van Wyck Brooks
"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."

Experience

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Van Wyck Brooks
"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."

Knowledge

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