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“Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes.”

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Book:Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S

Source: Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S

“I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth. In this little state I can discover all the great geniuses, all the surprising actions and revolutions of the great world in miniature. I have several renowned generals but three feet high, and several deep-projecting politicians in petticoats. I have others catching and dissecting flies, accumulating remarkable pebbles, cockleshells, etc., with as ardent curiosity as any virtuoso in the Royal Society.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.”

Knows Self Knowledge Genius Neighbor

Author:Minna Antrim

“Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.”

Source: Theory and History

“Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.”

Knowledge Greater Genius Immortal Mediocrity Consolation

Book:Novels and Tales by Goethe

Source: Novels and Tales by Goethe

“To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole.”

“This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.”

Wisdom Able Knowledge Learning Genius Innovation

Book:The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence

Source: The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence

“Sticking to it is the genius.”

Children Knowledge Ignorance Genius Limits

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Genius is nothing but continued attention.”

Motivational Attention Knowledge Focus Genius

Author:Claude Adrien Helvetius

“Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.”