Eye Quote by Francois Arago

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

— Stendhal

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

— John Ruskin

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them....

— Robertson Davies

It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is the ability to see the self-evident where the rest of the world turns blind.

— Kedar Joshi

Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.

— David R. Hawkins

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

— Samuel Butler

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

— Deepak Chopra

Genius only comes to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

— Auguste Rodin

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

— James Russell Lowell

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

— Richard Hofstadter