"You may have genius. The contrary is,..." - Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

“Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.”

“Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.”

“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.”

“A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.”

“Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.”

“As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?”

“Genius Borrows nobly.”

“When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.”

“Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.”