Genius

Genius:

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it. ~Author Unknown

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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, Zuleika Dobson, 1911

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. ~Buckminster Fuller

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. ~Mark Twain

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. ~Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. ~Robert S. Lynd

There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, "On Tranquillity of the Mind," Moral Essays

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. Schumacker