Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
ELBERT HUBBARDIf you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
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The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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