“Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them”
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“Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them”
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
“Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm”
“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together ”
“What is called genius is the abundance of life and health”
“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it”
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius ”
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
“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”
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius”
“Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius”
“Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.”
“It requires more than mere genius to be an author”
“Between genius and talent there is the proportion of the whole to its part”
“The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle”
“Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times”