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David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

Juliana Hatfield

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Franz Grillparzer

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Edmond De Goncourt

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Oliver Goldsmith

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.