There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.
I do have some very strange thoughts... Still, all geniuses are mad aren't they?
Even though Da Vinci was a genius, it's important to remember he was just a man.
I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe.
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
Wilde allegedly said this to a United States customs officer when he first arrived in America.
I'd go back and hang out with Isaac Newton. I'm torn between do I hang out with him or do I bring him into the present to hang out with me. See, that might be terrifying because his head will just explode once he sees everything that was derived from his discoveries, but I'd spend more time with someone who I think is one of the most brilliant minds our species has ever known.
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken.
Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman who hath arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding.