geniuses quotes

There were some great clinicians in the 20th century – great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius – there’s a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

I am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.