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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

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

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

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

The best revenge is the massive success.

Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Elon is one of our great geniuses… we want to cherish those people.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction – in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became geniuses (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? 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. All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

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

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Music may not make you a genius, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view — and most important, to take pleasure in listening.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

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.

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.

The qualities of creativity and genius are within you, awaiting your decision to match up with the power of intention.

The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius. The poet’s greatness is contained in his words; yet the study of his words will not disclose his inspiration. God reveals himself in creation; but scrutinize creation as minutely as you wish, you will not find God, any more than you will find the soul through careful examination of your body.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius.

There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. … He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes.

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.