"Genius must be born, and never can be taught."

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"Genius must be born, and never can be taught."

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

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Genius, Freedom, Values, Creativity

"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Genius, Thought, Creativity, Insight

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

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Genius, Wisdom, Truth, Power, Life

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

Genius, Saying, Silence

"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Genius, Personality, Relationship, Social

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Genius, Intuition, Perception, Teachability

"There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Genius, Horror, Mediocrity

"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Genius, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

"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."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Genius, Wisdom, Inspirational, Truth, Power

"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable."

Margot Fonteyn, English Dancer

Genius, Inexplicable, Magic, Word

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"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."

Now

"The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one."

Family

"Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue."

World

"Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."

Man

"Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong."

Forgiveness

"Self-defence is Nature's eldest law."

Nature

"A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow."

Argument

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide."

Philosophy

"Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where."

Death

"Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun."

Beauty