Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

Madame de Stael

Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid.

Albert Einstein

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

George Sand

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

R. Buckminster Fuller

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Henry David Thoreau

I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius.

Prince

The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he'd have to be a genius... For he will have to feed a family on a policeman's salary.

Paul Harvey

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

E. F. Schumacher

We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.

Peter Thiel

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

John Stuart Mill