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  • #1
    Woody Guthrie
    “Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”
    Woody Guthrie

  • #2
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #3
    Robert Fanney
    “A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.”
    Robert Fanney

  • #4
    Jennifer Donnelly
    “The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.”
    Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

  • #5
    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

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    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

  • #9
    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

  • #10
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #11
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Genius is finding the invisible link between things.”
    Vladimir Nabokov

  • #12
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”
    Fulton J. Sheen

  • #13
    Alexei Maxim Russell
    “Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.”
    Alexei Maxim Russell, Why Not-World

  • #14
    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

  • #15
    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



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