Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.Georg Lichtenberg
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.Steve Jobs
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.Virginia Woolf
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.Denis Diderot
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.Oliver Goldsmith
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.George Sand
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.Jonathan Swift
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.Georg C. Lichtenberg
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.E. F. Schumacher
Most geniuses—especially those who lead others—prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognized simplicities.Andy Benoit
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.Arthur Schopenhauer
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.Arthur Conan Doyle
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.Aldous Huxley