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"Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius"
George Sand
"A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate."
Steven Pressfield
"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality"
John Stuart Mill
"Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this, when I have a subject in mind, I study it profoundly"
Alexander Hamilton
"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
Charles Bukowski
"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
Ezra Pound
"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained."
John Stuart Mill
"The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"One measure of genius is the ability to see alternatives."
Ezra Pound
"To be great is to be misunderstood. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
Benjamin Franklin
"Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand"
Herman Melville
"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."
Carl Sagan
"A man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery"
James Joyce
"Genius is born—not paid."
Oscar Wilde
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