Motivational Quotes

Genius

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Genius

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Edgard Varese

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Pound, Ezra

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Oscar Levant

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Lewes, George Henry

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

James, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Weil, Simone

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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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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What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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.