"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."

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"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."

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"When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going."

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"As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius."

Ron Chernow, American Author

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"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"

Charles de Lint, Canadian Writer

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"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

Joseph Joubert, French Writer

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"Genius is nothing but continued attention."

Claude Adrien Helvetius, French Philosopher

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"An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius."

Billy Wilder, American Director

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"I am the farthest thing from a computer genius."

Jonathan Brandis, American Actor

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

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs."

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"When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going."

"As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius."

"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"

"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

"Genius is nothing but continued attention."

"An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius."

"I am the farthest thing from a computer genius."

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

"Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool."

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"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."

"It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too."

"Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe."

"There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't."

"When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him."

"There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory."

"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense."

"Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel."

"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."

"One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs."