The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
Talent borrows, genius steals!
My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can’t turn off. I dream equations all night.
I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
Simplicity is the trademark of GENIUS.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.
God is the poetic genius in each of us.
Execution is the chariot of genius.
Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.