No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.

Surely if knowledge is valuable it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary because heaven has granted me no offspring.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.