genius Quotes

No truly great person is completely free of some madness.

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

"Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex."

"Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific."

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

"Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge."

There's no great genius without a bit of craziness.

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of... ...