Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Aragon, Louis

Best Quotes about Genius

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Edgard Varese

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Welles, Orson

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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

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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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, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Ray, Man

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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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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

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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

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Pound, Ezra

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Ceran, C. W.

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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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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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)