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"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."
"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."
"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."
"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
Explore more quotes by William Godwin
"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity."
"The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection."
"Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him."
"It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn."
"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."
"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
"The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself."
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