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Not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius.
NJNikolaus Joseph von JacquinOften credited to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Love
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
- Education
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Aristotle384–322 BC
There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant1906–1972
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865The Lyceum Address (1838)
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Fulton J. Sheen1895–1979
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
- Intelligence
Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894
- Clever Jabs
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismannborn 1949
- Football
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I (21 December 1762)