Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I want to explore the borders between being a genius and being an idiot.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

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

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

At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.

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.

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

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

Genius is initiative on fire.

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

The brain is wider than the sky.

I never said I was a genius.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

Stupid people are dangerous.