Motivational Quotes

Genius

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Wilde, Oscar

Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

William Hazlitt

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Koestler, Arthur

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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.

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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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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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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Edgard Varese

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

Hume, David

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Welles, Orson

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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

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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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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Ceran, C. W.

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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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