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Real Genius

«Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.»
Author: Edmund Wilson | Keywords: engine, Real Genius
«Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.»
Author: J. G. Ballard (Novelist, Writer) | About: Writing | Keywords: novel, Real Genius
«I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin | About: Advertising | Keywords: Real Genius
«Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.»
«There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.»
«The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.»
«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.»
«What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.»
«Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.»