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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

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

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.