Motivational Quotes

Genius

Genius is sorrow's child.

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Genius

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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.

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

Trevor-Roper, H. R.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

Adams, Joey Lauren

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When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.

Crashaw, William

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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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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Oscar Wilde

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Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enoughto think they can change the world
Are the ones who do.

Apple Computer

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Stael, Germaine De

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

Joyce, James

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Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Edgard Varese

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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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Everybody denies I am a genius --but nobody ever called me one!

Welles, Orson

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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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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Aragon, Louis