To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies the difference between the genius and a commonplace man.
Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.
If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.
All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they dwindle away, you have only yourself to blame.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
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