Motivational Quotes

Genius

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

- Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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

Ray, Man

Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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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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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 of no country.

Charles Churchill

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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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pound, Ezra

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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 is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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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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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing them -- that what has been said has still not been said enough.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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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 is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Ceran, C. W.

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Oscar Levant

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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