Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

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

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

Genius is full of trash.

I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.

Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

I will write a book one day about how I feel about every aspect of Emily Stone. She's a full genius. She has found her genius and is giving it all so fully and beautifully. I think everyone who works with her, brushes shoulders with her, or even makes eye contact with her, gets a shot of sunshine.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

The thing that most people call 'genius' I do not believe in.

I consider myself a genius because, when you talk about anything and everything, you a genius to me. It's just about makin' it fire on top o' more fire.

True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.

Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.

True genius does not fulfill expectations; true genius shatters it.