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“If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.”

Ifs Men Asks Difficult Genius

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.”

Men Needs Wells Enough My Own Worry Style Masters Genius Fame Models Guides Cease Well Being Copies Free Man

Author:Pietro Aretino

“Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.”

Men Felt My Own Cold Genius Appreciation Modest

Book:Double Star

Source: Double Star

“A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.”

“No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.”

Men Humans Military Genius Capacity Stupidity Incapacity

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big”

Men Bigs Genius Band One Man

Author:Charles Garfield

“The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.”

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Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!”

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Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.”

Men Science Genius Melancholy

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.”

Men Genius Doctrine Creeds Splendid

Book:Endymion

Source: Endymion

“Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.”

Knows Men Should Father Education Strange Genius Circumstances Paid Bills Prepared Practicals Items

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.”

Men Genius Proportion Exhaustion

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.”

Men Mind May Art Eye Form Hours Walks Wise Meditation Genius Solitude Tables Calm Crowds Folly Distraction Artificial Retired Assembly

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.”

Men Seeing Genius Capacity

Author:William James

“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