There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense; with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points - and is fatal.
Kierkegaard
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Longfellow
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The case with most men is that they go out into life with one or another accidental characteristic of personality of which they say: Well, this is the way I am. I cannot do otherwise. Then the world gets to work on them and thus the majority of men are ground into conformity. In each generation a small part cling to their "I cannot do otherwise" and lose their minds. Finally there are a very few in each generation who in spite of all life's terrors cling with more and more inwardness to this "I cannot do otherwise". They are the geniuses. Their "I cannot do otherwise" is an infinite thought, for if one were to cling firmly to a finite thought, he would lose his mind.
Kierkegaard
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Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
Kierkegaard
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A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
Joey Adams
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Genius is born, not paid.
Oscar Wilde
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Genius borrows nobly.
R.W Emerson
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them.
R.W Emerson
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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Samuel T. Coleridge
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Genius is not so much about new ideas as it is about clarity of ideas. Two people can have the same idea yet it will be genius in the one and mediocrity in the other.
Kevin Solway
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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao-tzu
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
Elbert Hubbard
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