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

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

Picasso, Pablo

Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Ray, Man

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

James, William

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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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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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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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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 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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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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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

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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Apple Computer

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

Samuel Butler

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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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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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

Oscar Wilde

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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