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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.

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.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. - Josiah Gilbert Holland ,

Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a bulldog goes after a cat - with every fiber in him tense with eagerness and determination.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

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

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.

Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.