The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
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Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.
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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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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.
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
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One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as perfect patterns for all to emulate. In the very struggle to be like someone else rather than to be one's own true self, or to do one's own best in one's own environment, a child is in danger of losing the pearl that is really beyond price - the integrity of his (or her) own soul.
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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
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There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.
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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.
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Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
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Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.
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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
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