Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction.

To reveal the true nature of your intelligence rarely pays. Talent is fragile and it's the most sensitive envy trigger.

Intelligence not only demands solitude but feeds upon it.

The smarter you are, the faster you see through any given game.

What is the difference between a madman and a genius? Success.

Genius is finding the invisible links between things.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Most geniuses prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognised simplicities.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.

Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Intelligence is the capacity to recognize patterns, genius is the capacity to create them.

The genius is in the simplicity, not the complexity.

Genius sees the answer before the question.

High intelligence often comes with a price - the ability to see problems others don't, and the burden of being unable to ignore them.

The difference between intelligence and wisdom is that intelligence helps you solve problems, while wisdom helps you avoid them.

Genius is not about having all the answers, but about asking the right questions.

The highest form of intelligence is the ability to observe without evaluating.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

The measure of genius is not in the solution, but in the elegance of the solution.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.