Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Van Wyck Brooks

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Only a genius can play a fool.
Michael Rapaport

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.
Bryant H. McGill

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
Ritchie Blackmore

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
Ken Burns

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.
George Clooney

She was a genius, my mother.
Sally Kirkland

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
Taylor Caldwell

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Walter Lippmann

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
Charles Babbage

Common sense is genius in homespun.
Alfred North Whitehead

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
George Henry Lewes

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
Beck

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
George Henry Lewes

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.
Ron Chernow

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bruce Feirstein