Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
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.
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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.
Conceit spoils the finest genius.
Common sense is the genius of humanity.
But genius always looks forward. The eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead. Man hopes. Genius creates.
Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
Baby, I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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.
