| Author |
Quotes |
| Albert Camus | I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man. |
| Albert Einstein | Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. |
| Aristotle | There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. |
| Aristotle | No great genius is without an admixture of madness. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Genius without education is like silver in the mine. |
| Anonymous | The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. |
| C Holman | Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a bulldog goes after a cat - with every fiber in him tense with eagerness and determination. |
| Carl Sagan | But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. |
| Christopher Quill | Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck. |
| Cyrus Augustus Bartol | As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character too. |
| E F Schumacher | Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. |
| Edgard Varese | Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. |
| Elbert Hubbard | Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. |
| Elbert Hubbard | Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time. |
| G C Lichtenberg | Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen. |
| Gamal Abdel Nasser | The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing. |
| Goethe | Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life. |
| Henri Frederic Amiel | Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. |
| Horace | Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. |
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