Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Genius, when young, is divine.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves it's just a question of finding the subject.
