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    Woody Guthrie
    “Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”
    ― Woody Guthrie
    tags: genius
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: colleges, genius, home-schooling, humor, school
    124 likes

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    Robert Fanney
    “A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.”
    ― Robert Fanney
    tags: academic, genius, thought
    99 likes

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    Jennifer Donnelly
    “The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.”
    ― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
    tags: genius, humor, taste
    68 likes

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    “Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
    ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    tags: genius, love
    396 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: genius, humor
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    Criss Jami
    “A lack of illusion is golden, and it is quite possible that creativity is the highest form of intelligence. One might further develop oneself in the creative sense and, therefore, at times, find some degree of shame more so than pride when having always followed that of the safe and ever-praised academia.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: brain, college, creativity, development, genius, humility, intelligence, learning, pride, shame
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    Mike Norton
    “Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.”
    ― Mike Norton, White Mountain
    tags: alone, bare, bloom, creative, creativity, cultivate, endure, faith, forest, genesis, genius, grow, hero, legend, loneliness, originality, plant, rain, solitude, weather
    235 likes

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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: genius, work
    78 likes

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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Genius is finding the invisible link between things.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: genius, nabokov
    73 likes

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    Fulton J. Sheen
    “Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”
    ― Fulton J. Sheen
    tags: genius
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    Alexei Maxim Russell
    “Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.”
    ― Alexei Maxim Russell, Why Not-World
    tags: genius, genius-writers, geniuses, intelligence, intelligence-quotient, stupidity, stupidity-quotes, wisdom
    43 likes

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    C.W. Ceram
    “Among many other things, genius implies the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple, and to recognize inclusive structural principals.”
    ― C.W. Ceram
    tags: genius, principles
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    Gertrude Stein
    “It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: genius, humor
    2183 likes



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