"Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty."

Peguy, Charles on wealth   

"Yes; the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."

Wilde, Oscar on public   

"Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"Poverty is the step-mother of genius."

Billings, Josh on poverty and the poor
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"Passion is the genesis of genius."

Robbins, Anthony on passion
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"Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe."

Disraeli, Benjamin on mediocrity   

"The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers."

Lewes, George Henry on genius
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"To see things in the seed is genius."

Lao-Tzu on genius
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"Accept your genius and say what you think."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on genius
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"The greatest genius is the most indebted person."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on genius
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"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Edison, Thomas A. on genius
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"Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple."

Ceran, C. W. on genius
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"Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience."

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc on genius
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on genius
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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