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Quote Left The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal. Quote Right
Quote Left If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. Quote Right
Quote Left There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. Quote Right
Quote Left My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. Quote Right
Quote Left Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Quote Right
Quote Left Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours. Quote Right
Quote Left Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air. Quote Right
Quote Left Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. Quote Right
Quote Left Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. Quote Right
Quote Left Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. Quote Right
Quote Left What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. Quote Right
Quote Left Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others. Quote Right
Quote Left Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. Quote Right
Quote Left They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. Quote Right
Quote Left Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. Quote Right
Quote Left Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. Quote Right

Member Quotes About Geniuses

Quote Left Creatives I Admire (Part 1) - The writers and creatives I gravitate to, are those who have been driven to the depths of despair, experienced the greatest pain on many levels (physical and emotional), have survived to share with us their experiences, whether they are cast as outsiders or received as enfant terrible geniuses and welcomed by society with open arms (while many of those creatives such as those I speak of, shun those open arms). Quote Right
Quote Left Creatives I Admire (Part 1) - The writers and creatives I gravitate to, are those who have been driven to the depths of despair, experienced the greatest pain on many levels (physical and emotional), have survived to share with us their experiences, whether they are cast as outsiders or received as enfant terrible geniuses and welcomed by society with open arms (while many of those creatives such as those I speak of, shun those open arms). Quote Right
Quote Left Geniuses are counted by single digit numbers, while mediocrities are countless. Quote Right

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