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Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books -- Albert Pike
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. -- Edmund Wilson
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. -- J. G. Ballard
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. -- Simone Weil
Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully? -- E. T. A. Hoffmann
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it. -- George Bernard Shaw
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity. -- Dmitri Shostakovich
The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people. -- Jim Rohn
When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him. -- Jonathan Swift
Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all. -- Max Euwe
Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts. -- Thomas Gainsborough
There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it. -- Danielle Trussoni
The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info. -- David Foster Wallace
I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man, who has not been there since the last war, when he was compelled to go. No, I have a real genius for staying at home. -- Henry David Thoreau
There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own field the biochemist Fritz Lipmann or the much maligned Linus Pauling were very talented people. But generally, geniuses everywhere seem to have died out by 1914. Today, most are mediocrities blown up by the winds of the time. -- Erwin Chargaff
Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius. -- Brian Herbert
The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers. -- George Henry Lewes
Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius. -- Wazim Shaw
I'm pretty handy in the kitchen. But my wife's the real genius. -- Chris Diamantopoulos
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both. -- Maria Edgeworth
The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be. -- Mary Hunter Austin
The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people. -- Bill Maher
In real estate, you make 10% of your money because you're a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave. -- Jeff Greene
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration. -- Charles M. Schwab
I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. -- Leo Burnett
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist. -- Alex Scarrow
There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy. -- Vivienne Westwood
Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of the African American people who were marginalized. -- Michael Eric Dyson
The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info. -- David Foster Wallace

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