The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
Only a genius can play a fool.
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.