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Genius Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary…
- Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
- If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had…
- The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so…
- In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny…
- Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any…
- Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary…
- Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
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- Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius… — Charles Babbage
- Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his. — Matthew Sweet
- The MESSAGE I STRESS: To make it up stop, study your lessons. Don't settle for less- even the genius asks questions. Be… — 2PAC
- Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. — Wystan Hugh Auden