Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. – Napoleon Bonaparte, Discours de Lyon, 1771
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. – E.B. White
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. – John F. Kennedy, in an address to Nobel Prize winners
Every true genius is bound to be naive. – J.C.F. von Schiller
Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. – Phillips Brooks
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. – Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, 1911
The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. – Rebecca Pepper Sinkler
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. – Robert S. Lynd
In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self Reliance,” Essays, 1841
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. – George Bernard Shaw
Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh: A Tale, 1849
Every great genius has an admixture of madness. – Aristotle
This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present. – Deepak Chopra
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. – E.F. Schumacher
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. – George-Louis de Buffon
Those who dance are thought mad by those who do not hear the music. – Anon.
