But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all
who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed
at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at
Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
Genius is of no country.
Charles Churchill
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few
minutes.
Edgard Varese (1883 - 1965)
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus
handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
Lydia M. Child
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this
line.
Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except
genius.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and
without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the
uttermost exertion of their abilities.
Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business"
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its
possessors into trouble of all kinds.
Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly
recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of
Fear, 1915
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent
perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in
it, but they labor in it because they excel.
William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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