When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

[Thoughts on Various Subjects]

When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.