To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it’s true. It’s a new world every heart beat.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people; the insistence on small miracles.

All of the great geniuses of the world were inspired and driven by their desire to enrich the lives of others.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

I don’t want to be a genius – I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.