Genius
* A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. - Joey Lauren Adams
* A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it. - Anonymous
* A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. - Barbara Walters
* A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition. - Charles Caleb Colton
* 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. Schumacker
* Character is higher than intellect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
* Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
* Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. - George Bernard Shaw
* Common sense is not so common. - Voltaire
* Every man is a potential genius - until he does something. - Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
* Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. - Robert S. Lynd
* Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead. - Robert S. Lun
* Every true genius is bound to be naive. - J.C.F. von Schiller
* Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
* Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. - Josh Billings
* Genius is an African who dreams up snow. - Vladimir Nabokov
* Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. - E.B. White
* Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. - George-Louis de Buffon
* Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. - Oscar Wilde
* Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. - Apple Computer
* His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. - Thomas A. Edison
* I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. - Buckminster Fuller
* I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. - James McNeill Whistler
* I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. - Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad"
* I think the world is run by C students. - Al McGuire
* 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
* I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. - Dolly Parton
* If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
* If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. - Stanley Garn
* If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. - Emerson M. Pugh
* 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
* Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. - Ambrose Bierce
* Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. - Henri Frederic Amiel
* Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. - Napoleon Bonaparte, Discours de Lyon, 1771
* Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof. - Chao Chang
* Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra
* Primitive does not mean stupid. - Anonymous
* Since when was genius found respectable? - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
* Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. - Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711
* Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. - Carl Jung
* Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is. - James Russell Lowell, Literary Essays
* The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. - Aldous Huxley
* The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living. - Charles F. Kettering
* The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education. - Joel Hildebrand
* The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. - Oscar Wilde
* The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. - Rebecca Pepper Sinkler
* There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. - Don Herold
* 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
* Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. - Mark Twain
* We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. - Louis Aragon
* We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow. - President Woodrow Wilson
* We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. - Albert Einstein
* What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. - Sigmund Freud
* When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift
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