Blood Quote by Terry Pratchett

Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.

— Leslie Stephen

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

— Samuel Butler

I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.

— Kate Zambreno

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when you're a skilled intelligence professional, everything looks like a vital source for collection.

— Chelsea Manning

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

— John Taylor Gatto

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

— Elbert Hubbard

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.

— Samuel Butler

Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.

— Albert Einstein

Genius is independent of situation.

— Charles Churchill

There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.

— Clarence Darrow

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