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

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.

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

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

There is no off position on the genius button.

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

There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice

There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.