"Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise"
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"Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight."
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"Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent."
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"There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness."
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"Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius."
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"The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys."
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"We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals."
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"The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius."
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"The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor."
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"If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful."
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"The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination"
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"Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police."
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"There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius."
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"Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time."
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"Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present."
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"Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh."
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"Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began."
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"Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer."
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"Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage."
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"Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible."
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