Genius proverbs

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◆ Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

- Arthur Rimbaud99

◆ No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

- Aristotle99

◆ Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

- Charles Baudelaire99

◆ 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.

- E.F. Schumacher99

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

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

- Edgar Allan Poe99

◆ Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

- Arthur Conan Doyle99

◆ 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 Sagan99

◆ When you make a choice, you change the future.

- Deepak Chopra99

◆ Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart99

◆ It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

- Gertrude Stein99

◆ Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

- Claude Monet99

◆ No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

- Aristotle98

◆ Talent works, genius creates.

- Robert A Schumann98

◆ Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

- John Stuart Mill98