"The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard."
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"Genius is power, talent is applicability."
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"The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is."
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"The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties."
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"The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books."
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"Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show."
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"The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil and to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself."
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"We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours."
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"It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse."
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"Genius appeals to the future."
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"The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward."
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"Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject."
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"No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius."
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"That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men."
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"... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius."
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"By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated."
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"You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House."
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"My comic sense, although deliberately Americanized, is, in its intent, much closer related to the crazy wisdom of Zen monks and the goofy genius of Taoist masters than it is to, say, the satirical gibes on Saturday Night Live. It has both a literary and a metaphysical function."
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"Passion is the genius of genius."
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"Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he's a genius."
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