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

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.

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.

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.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination.

The only genius that’s worth anything is the genius for hard work.

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

There is no off position on the genius button.