Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are.
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Since when was genius found respectable?
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
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