#genius

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. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Genius, when young, is divine. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses. ↗

— Richard Donner

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No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

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Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't. ↗

— Rufus Wainwright

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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius. ↗

— Billy Wilder

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