“Where passion is married to intelligence, you may find genius, neurosis, madness or rapture.”
Michael Chabon (1963) Novelist, short story writer, essayist
The Mysteries of Berkeley (March 2002)
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“Perhaps genius alone understands genius fully.”
Robert Schumann (1810–1856) German composer, aesthete and influential music critic
Sometimes translated as: Perhaps only genius fully understands genius
Original: Vielleicht versteht nur der Genius den Genius ganz, Robert Schumann, Advice to Young Musicians, translation of Musikalische Haus- und Lebens-Regeln, translated by Henry Hugo Pierson, Leipsic & New York: J. Schuberth & Co., 1860.
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
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Kathleen Winsor (1919–2003) American author
“Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
“Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.”
Arthur Schopenhauer book The World as Will and Representation
Wirklich ist jedes Kind gewissermaßen ein Genie, und jedes Genie gewissermaßen ein Kind.
Bd. 2, § 3.31, p. 451
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)
“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. ”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity