Samuel Butler Quotes

Most geniuses are weird.

Geniuses never pay attention.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

There is no off position on the genius switch.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

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.

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

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

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

What's lovely about 'Eureka' is that it's a sci-fi show, but it's not monsters from outer space; it's not craziness from outer space. It's just about this community of people and what they do. These geniuses have sometimes done wonderful things and sometimes created global warming. It has this wonderful left-of-center sense of humor.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be.

I think every genius person has a bit of insanity.

We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.