Unconventional Genius Quotes

Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

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

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality.

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.

Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.

Harold is a bastard, but he is a genius.

I'm not a prodigy - or a 'wonderboy,' as some have put it.