Brain Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.

— Samuel Butler

All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone.…

— Peter Kline

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may…

— Plato

Genius must be born, it can't be taught.

— John Dryden

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

— John Dryden

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

— Sylvia Nasar

A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

— Ludwig von Mises

I went to a school where everyone was smarter than me. And I'm not blowin' smoke, I, my, I was surrounded by genius, genius…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

“One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type of intelligence, and it’s incredibly…

— Bruce Springsteen

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

— Marcus Aurelius

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

— Madame de Stael

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

— Charles Baudelaire