Genius can be recognized by its childish simplicity.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man — but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

Genius is sorrow’s child.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.