Every positive value has its price in negative terms, the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. -
Pablo Picasso
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. -
Walter Lippmann
My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. -
Mary Todd Lincoln
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence and determination. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; un-rewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. -
Calvin Coolidge
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. -
Henry David Thoreau
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. -
James Joyce
Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever. -
Paul Valery
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
