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Anna Garlin Spencer: “Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.”

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Jonathan Swift: “When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”

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Madame de Stael: “Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.”

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Madame de Stael: “Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.”

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Benjamin Franklin: “Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

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Mark Twain: “The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.”

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Mark Twain: “The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.”

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “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.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle: “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”

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Madame de Stael: “Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.”

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Georg C. Lichtenberg: “Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.”

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Fulton J. Sheen: “Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”

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Seneca: “There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
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Albert Einstein: “Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.”

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Robert G. Ingersoll: “In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous. ”

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Bruce Feirstein: “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”

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Albert Einstein: “Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”

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Carl Sagan: “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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Thomas Alva Edison: “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

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Albert Einstein: “Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

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Dorothy Thompson: “The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “Since when was genius found respectable?”

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Albert Einstein: “Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.”

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Anna Garlin Spencer: “The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.” more

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Elbert Hubbard: “Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”

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Alexander Hamilton: “Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.”

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Joe Theisman: “The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.”

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Jean Baptiste Henry Lacordaire: “We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.”

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Oscar Levant: “There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

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William James: “Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”

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