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

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

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.
Albert Einstein

Passion is the genesis of genius.
Tony Robbins

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham Lincoln

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Pablo Picasso

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Henry David Thoreau

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
Henry David Thoreau

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Henry David Thoreau

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David Thoreau

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

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson