 | "But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
- Carl Sagan
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| "Genius is of no country."
- Charles Churchill
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| "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes."
- Edgard Varese
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| "Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
- Elbert Hubbard
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| "Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame."
- Lydia M. Child
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| "There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
- Oscar Levant
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| "The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
- Oscar Wilde
, The Critic as Artist, 1891. |
| "He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities."
- Robertson Davies
, "Fifth Business". |
| "There is no great genius without some touch of madness."
- Seneca
, Epistles. |
| "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915. |