Motivational Quotes

Genius

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Genius

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

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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.

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

Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Ceran, C. W.

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Samuel Butler

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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)

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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 a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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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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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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

James, William

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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