Genius

"I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man."

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination"

"No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness."

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

"In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages."

"It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful."

"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

"Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice."

"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."

"All geniuses die young."