Andre Maurois Quotes

Madness is the acme of intelligence.

I think every genius person has a bit of insanity.

Geniuses are not always pleasant people.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Most geniuses are weird.

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

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

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

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

I do have some very strange thoughts... Still, all geniuses are mad aren't they?

I think every brilliant mind is a little bit crazy.

We have to understand that all geniuses have a crazy side to them.

We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

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 spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

You can't have genius without patience.