Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Edison, Thomas A.

To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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 the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Ceran, C. W.

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

Child, Lydia M.

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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.

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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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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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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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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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Welles, Orson

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

Oscar Levant

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Hume, David

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

Ray, Man

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child