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“To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.”

Mind Firsts Use Genius Exercise Appreciate Valuable Maxims Appreciate Life

Author:William Rounseville Alger

“Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.”

Firsts Reason Purpose Genius

Book:A Preface to Politics

Source: A Preface to Politics

“There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.”

Firsts Player Genius Damn Wicked Motto

Author:George Farquhar

“The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.”

World Firsts Faces Politics Results Power Path Genius Method Mediocre

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.”

Firsts Stills Inspiration Age Heard Middle Genius Ears Middle Ages

Author:Orson Welles

“In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.”

Firsts Stills Order Risk Share Fool Genius Sitting Wheels Glances Brilliance Sitting Still

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind.”

Mind Firsts Creativity Genius Claims Peace Of Mind Ingredients Disturbing Knack Being Wrong

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.”

Want Firsts Made God Law Sky Genius Limits Eternity Measurement God And Nature

Book:The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. X: Africa for the Africans, 1923–1945

Source: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. X: Africa for the Africans, 1923–1945

“Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.”

Firsts Found Genius Honorable Honored Benefactors Pariahs

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk