One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

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

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.