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

Wit is educated insolence.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.