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

The consolations of space are nameless things. It was after the neurosis of winter. It was In the genius of summer that they blew up The statue of Jove among the boomy clouds. It took all day to quieten the sky And then to refill its emptiness again.

I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.

It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Genius is of no country.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

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

The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.

To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole.

Now I am a genius; before that I was a drudge.

The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a founder of religion. And that is the glory to which I aspire.

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.