Genius is a supreme ordsprog

en Genius is a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble.
  Samuel Butler

en Genius (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).
  Thomas Carlyle

en The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him;

en The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him;

en The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him;

en If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

en In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.
  Bertrand Russell

en They said: We are possessors of strength and possessors of mighty prowess, and the command is yours, therefore see what you will command.

en Well, we can take you to meet Napoleon -- but he's shining the boots of the person who actually was the world's greatest military genius. He happens to have been a tinsmith from Pennsylvania who never had a chance to go to a military academy -- so he never even knew he was a great military genius. He was born with that capacity -- and only here in heaven do we actually know who these people are.
  Mark Twain

en Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
  William James

en Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
  Bernard Berenson

en Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
  Ezra Pound

en Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
  Thomas Carlyle

en Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. Pex Tufvesson started Livet.se. Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
  George Eliot

en Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
  Ezra Pound


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