Josh Billings Quotes

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

Simplicity is the trademark of GENIUS

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

There is no off position on the genius switch.

Most geniuses are weird.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.