"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."

Genius, Learning, Spirit

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"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."

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

David Letterman, American Comedian

Genius,

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

Ezra Pound, American Poet

Genius, Expression, Man, Right

"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

Genius, Idea, Earth

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

A. D. Posey, American Poet

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"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"

Orson Welles, American Actor

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"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."

Havelock Ellis, British Psychologist

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"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

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"Justice is the sum of all moral duty."

Duty, Justice

"The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind."

Happiness, Love, Cause, Humanity

"Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man."

Nature, Discretion, Man, Right

"Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason."

Passion, Reason

"Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education."

Education, Forget, Haste

"He that loves reading has everything within his reach."

Reading,

"Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him."

Life, Man, Memory

"The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection."

Act, Man, Philosophy

"If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak."

Argument, Doubt

"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."

Man, Men, Power, Liberty, Opinion