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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genii.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and never can be taught.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us.

When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.

No great genius is without an admixture of madness.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.