A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it.
~ Author Unknown

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
~ E.B. White

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
~ John F. Kennedy, in an address to Nobel Prize winners

Every true genius is bound to be naive.
~ J.C.F. von Schiller

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
~ Phillips Brooks

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
~ Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, 1911

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
~ Buckminster Fuller

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
~ Mark Twain