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Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.