Motivational Quotes

Genius

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

- Lewes, George Henry

Best Quotes about Genius

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Child, Lydia M.

Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.

Beauvoir, Simone De

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Auden, W. H.

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Churchill, Winston

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Heine, Heinrich

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Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

Picasso, Pablo

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Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

Hayden, B. R.

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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

Calvino, Italo

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Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

Fuller, Margaret

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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Oscar Wilde

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Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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There is one subtle but important difference between genius and stupidity and that is that genius has its limits. You'll see yourself clearest in the eyes of your friends.

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone. That's probably because school hasn't encouraged us to notice what's hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself.

Kline, Peter

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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

Ray, Man

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What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing them -- that what has been said has still not been said enough.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Weil, Simone

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When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Stein, Gertrude

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Woolf, Virginia

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The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

Hume, David

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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Stael, Germaine De