The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs –apart from discernment –a certain greatness to find him.

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

There is one subtle but important difference between genius and stupidity and that is that genius has its limits. You'll see yourself clearest in the eyes of your friends.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

To see things in the seed is genius.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.

Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea — possessing them — that what has been said has still not been said enough.

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