Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
Genius is talent exercised with courage.[Genie ist Mut im Talent.]
Genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration.
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
Expect a most agreeable letter, for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say), I shall have no check to my genius from beginning to end.
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.
All children in some form or another have genius; the trick is to bring it out in them.
A genius is a form of madness, and we’re all that way.