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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
Washington Irving
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
Jos
Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.
J. C. (James Cash) Penney
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.
Albert Einstein
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the future
Victor Hugo
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Ezra Pound
Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
Francis Herbert Hedge
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
Edward Dahlberg
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Terry Pratchett
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
John Dryden
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Since when was genius found respectable?
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Benjamin Disraeli
Genius, when young, is divine.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
