“Genius is nothing but continued attention.”
Claude Adrien Helvetius
“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.”
Mark Twain
“Great geniuses have the shortest biographies”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention. . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.”
William James
“People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.”
Calvin & Hobbes
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Albert Einstein
