Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them ou

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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Every true genius is bound to be naive. – J.C.F. von Schiller

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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh: A Tale, 1849

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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. – Louis Aragon

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