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

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.

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

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.

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.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.