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1. “Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.”

Camille Paglia

Gender, Feminism, Genius, Society, Philosophy

2. “There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers.”

Camille Paglia

Gender, Genius, Society, Culture, History

3. “The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.”

Camille Paglia

Athens, History, Misogyny, Genius, Classical

4. “Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.”

Camille Paglia

Poetry, Women, Genius, Sappho, Emily Dickinson

5. “I find no intellect comparable to my own.”

Margaret Fuller

Intellect, Confidence, Individuality, Genius, Thought

6. “Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.”

Margaret Fuller

Truth, Genius, Individuality, Originality, Integrity

7. “Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.”

Margaret Fuller

Genius, Talent, Growth, Effort, Cultivation

8. “Truth is the nursing mother of genius.”

Margaret Fuller

Truth, Genius, Knowledge, Inspiration, Wisdom

9. “The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.”

Margaret Fuller

Women, Genius, Intuition, Spirituality, Strength

10. “This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.”

Margaret Fuller

Genius, Creativity, Influence, Perception, Hardship

11. “Great minds don’t think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.”

Scott Adams

Innovation, Creativity, Thinking, Genius, Ideas

12. “The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages but the same flame burns in them all. Oh, if you only knew what unearthly happiness my soul feels now from being able to understand them.”

Anton Chekhov

Genius, Art, Inspiration, Understanding, Knowledge

13. “How fortunate Buddha, Mahomed, and Shakespeare were that their kind relations and doctors did not cure them of their ecstasy and their inspiration.”

Anton Chekhov

Genius, Inspiration, Creativity, Fortune, Vision

14. “My life has been a failure. I am clever and brave and strong. If I had lived a normal life I might have become another Schopenhauer or Dostoieffski. I am losing my head!”

Anton Chekhov

Failure, Genius, Regret, Despair, Life

15. “Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.”

Herbert Spencer

Genius, Science, Innovation, Progress, Knowledge

16. “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

Advertising, Genius, Marketing, Creativity, Restraint

17. “An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.”

Daniel J. Boorstin

Amateur, Genius, Learning, Freedom, Creativity

18. “The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.”

Stendhal

Genius, Passion, Art, Dedication, Perseverance

19. “The presence of danger inspires a sensible man with genius, raising him, so to speak, above himself. In the case of the man of imagination, it inspires him with romances, which may indeed be bold, but which are frequently absurd.”

Stendhal

Danger, Imagination, Genius, Creativity, Inspiration

20. “The first instrument of a people’s genius is its language.”

Stendhal

Language, Genius, Culture, Expression, Communication

21. “Only great minds can afford a simple style.”

Stendhal

Genius, Simplicity, Wisdom, Intelligence, Creativity

22. “There is a sequence about the creative process, and a work of genius is a synthesis of its individual features from which nothing can be subtracted without disaster.”

Seneca

Creativity, Genius, Art, Process, Perfection

23. “There is no genius without a touch of madness.”

Seneca

Genius, Madness, Creativity, Innovation, Passion

24. “Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.”

Seneca

Genius, Prudence, Wisdom, Creativity, Caution

25. “No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.”

Seneca

Genius, Madness, Creativity, Innovation, Uniqueness

26. “Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.”

Emile Zola

Education, Genius, Talent, Classical, Beaten Path

27. “If you want to win, drop the past trends. Genius creates new trends and the crowd follows the past.”

Amit Ray

Winning, Genius, New Trends, Innovation, Leadership

28. “A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.”

Alice Walker

Legacy, Art, History, Genius, Responsibility

29. “We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.”

Alice Walker

Legacy, History, Preservation, Genius, Cultural Responsibility

30. “Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.”

Charlie Chaplin

Individuality, Genius, Masses, Psychology, Society

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