Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

Best Quotes about Genius

1.

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

Stael, Germaine De

2.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

3.

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

Robertson Davies

4.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Oscar Wilde

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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan

7.

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

Wilde, Oscar

8.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

9.

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

Lewes, George Henry

10.

Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

11.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

12.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

13.

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

Picasso, Pablo

14.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

15.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

16.

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

17.

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

Auden, W. H.

18.

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

Edgard Varese

19.

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.

20.

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

William Hazlitt

21.

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

Koestler, Arthur

22.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

23.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Pound, Ezra

27.

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

29.

To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

33.

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

Child, Lydia M.

34.

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

Irving, Washington

35.

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

36.

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

37.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

38.

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.

39.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

40.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

41.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

43.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

44.

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

Weil, Simone

45.

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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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.