A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.
The difference between genius and insanity is whether or not people belive you.
Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps. l
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.
Men of genius have a way utterly peculiar to themselves of seeing things.
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough
I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease -- a genuine, absolute disease. For everyday human existence it would more than suffice to have the ordinary share of human consciousness; that is to say, one half, one quarter that that which falls to the lot of a cultivated man in our wretched nineteenth century [...] It would, for instance, be quite enough to have the amount of consciousness by which all the so-called simple, direct people and men of action live.
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing really doing nothing.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
Genius, the power which dazzles human eyes, is oft but perseverance in disguise.
Genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
Genius is eternal patience.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
It [genius] is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
Once you had to be a genius to make works of art. Now you have to be a genius to understand them.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
