“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.”
― White Mountain
― White Mountain
“A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.”
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“Among many other things, genius implies the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple, and to recognize inclusive structural principals.”
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“Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.”
― Why Not-World
― Why Not-World
“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.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
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