I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest
excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; read more

Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest
excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he
throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every
human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius--and a lot read more

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the
opposite direction.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. read more

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.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius
can appear.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius
can appear.