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Genius Quotes

"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself"

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained."

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness"

"Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is even in shorter supply than genius"

"A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate."

"A man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery"

"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."

"One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius."

"The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination"

"Genius: One who is mistaken for another of less ability"

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."

"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration."

"Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born."

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