Terry Pratchett Quotes

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

A genius is someone with the ability to come up with ideas that are new, surprising and valuable.

Genius is the error in the system.

Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

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

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

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

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Men of genius are not be analyzed by commonplace rules.

Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.

The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

I think every genius person has a bit of insanity.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.