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Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it. (Alger William R.)
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. (Alger William R.)
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. (Alger William R.)
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. (Alger William R.)
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. (Alger William R.)
True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius. (Alger William R.)
Every man is a potential genius until he does something. (Alger William R.)
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve. (Alger William R.)
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others. (Alger William R.)
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius (Alger William R.)
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. (Alger William R.)
Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm. (Alger William R.)
The divine egoism hat is genius. (Alger William R.)
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. (Alger William R.)
Everybody denies I am a genius --but nobody ever called me one! (Alger William R.)
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. (Alger William R.)
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. (Alger William R.)
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. (Alger William R.)
I have nothing to declare except my genius. (Alger William R.)
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire. (Alger William R.)
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. (Alger William R.)
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