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"I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives"
"Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality."
"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone."
"Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also."
"Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling."
"Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity."
"First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth."
"Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times."
"Genius is only a superior power of seeing."
"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time."
"Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course."
"WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius."
"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"
"A woman must be a genius to create a good husband."
"All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?"
"Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity."
"For style beyond the genius never dares."
"Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum."
"Genius is clairvoyant."
"Genius is always more suggestive than expressive."
