Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.
Men of genius are the worst possible models for men of talent.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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.
Too often we forget that genius ... depends upon the data within its reach, that Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Genius is only great patience.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
