Author Quote by James Morcan, Lance Morcan

“Russell commented that the development of such gifted individuals (referring to polymaths) required a childhood period in which there was little or no pressure…

— Carl Sagan

“It talked about the isolation felt by gifted young people whose social skills could not keep up with their intellects and who were often…

— Dan Brown

“Most of our children are not prodigies, or even particularly gifted in any one field, but they all have the potential to shine as…

— Barbara Lourie Sand

“Genius in the popular sense has become common. (...) Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe,…

— Knut Hamsun

Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses…

— James Morcan

“Could it be we stifle our children's genius by languaging them too quickly away from their hearts and into the straight and narrow confines…

— Victor Villaseñor

“many of the people who we think of as lone geniuses were actually part of “a whole scene of people who were supporting each…

— Austin Kleon

“Genius is the capacity to retrieve childhood at will.”

— Erik Wahl

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

— Mark Twain

Children are geniuses.

— Kristin Cashore

“Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of…

— Albert Sánchez Piñol

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe