Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.

James, William

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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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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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Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Hamilton, Alexander

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True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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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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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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.

Byron, Lord

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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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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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Wilde, Oscar

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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.

Samuel Butler

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Koestler, Arthur

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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Genius sits in a glass house -- but in an unbreakable one --conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck. (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. New art, it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in ism.)

Klee, Paul

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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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Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

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

Oscar Wilde

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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Ceran, C. W.