Against Quote by Thomas Steinbeck

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things…

— Terry Pratchett

“All thought usually reached the public after thirty years in some such form: The man on the street heard the conclusions of some dead…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A genius always presents himself as a fool

— Karim Seddiki

Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.

— Ambrose Bierce

His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.

— Suzanne Collins

He knew human folly like the back of his hand,

— Wystan Hugh Auden

“Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence,…

— Bertrand Russell

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

— George Bernard Shaw

“It is true that the genius of assembled men or of peoples is quite different from a man's character in private, and that one…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way

— William James

He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge,…

— Anonymous