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

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

Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Marcus Aurelius

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison

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

Common sense is the genius of humanity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.
Clint Eastwood

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Marcus Garvey

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Jung

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Alexander Pope

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope

Genius is sorrow's child.
John Adams

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Edgar Allan Poe

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
James Russell Lowell

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
James Russell Lowell