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Amos Bronson Alcott on Intelligence

1799–1888 United States

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Genius is but the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

The Doctrine and Discipline of Human Culture (1836)

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,—by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,—becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Genius—the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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