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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius
can appear.
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius
can appear.
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius--and a lot read more
Any 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.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
No great genius is without an admixture of madness.
No great genius is without an admixture of madness.
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest
excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; read more
Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest
excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he
throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every
human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.