The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.