Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

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.

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

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

There is no off position on the genius switch.

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

Genius is of no country.

A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.

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.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

I'm a little smarter than most.

Genius is independent of situation.

You know, I'm really not that bright.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Genius is initiative on fire.

I took a test once; they said I was a genius.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

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

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

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

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.

No good-looking appearance would conceal low intelligence.