#genius

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

— Seneca

#existed #genius #great #great genius #madness

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. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#american #backgrounds #college #compared #different

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius. ↗

— Leo Szilard

#concludes #democratic #draw #favor #genius

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue. ↗

— Andre Breton

#dali #genius #hesitates #like #man

I am the farthest thing from a computer genius. ↗

— Jonathan Brandis

#computer #farthest #genius #i #i am

Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. ↗

— Anthony Hope

#being #best #genius #intelligible #unless

When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." [Thoughts on Various Subjects] ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#genius #stupidity #christianity

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#gifts #mediocrity #recognition #sherlock-holmes #talent

That's why I've just gone on … collecting this particular kind of stuff – what you might call riff-raff. There's not a book here, Lawford, that hasn't at least a glimmer of the real thing in it – just Life, seen through a living eye, and felt. As for literature, and style, and all that gallimaufry, don't fear for them if your author has the ghost of a hint of genius in his making. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#genius #literature #style #writers #writing

It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#adulthood #blunt #finding-yourself #genius #honest