To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao-Tzu
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
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Seneca
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
Margot Fonteyn
The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theisman
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E.B. White
In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him
Max Beerbohm