Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius who are often too full to be exact and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.

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.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary because heaven has granted me no offspring.

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

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

When a true genius appears you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.

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

To think and to feel constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Talent lying in the understanding is often inherited genius being the action of reason or imagination rarely or never.

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.

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