this showed up in my e-mail today
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.
- Cesare Lombroso, 1835 - 1909
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- Oscar Wilde, 1854 - 1900
Talent is that which is in a man's power. Genius is that in whose power a man is.
- James Russell Lowell, 1819 - 1891
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
- E. B. White, 1899 - 1985
Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
- Akiro Kurosawa, 1910 - 1998
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
- Margot Fonteyn, 1919 - 1991
