Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Genius

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

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

William Hazlitt

Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Welles, Orson

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Aragon, Louis

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ray, Man

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Child, Lydia M.

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Koestler, Arthur

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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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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Ceran, C. W.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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