Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Genius

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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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 might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.

Samuel Butler

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Lewes, George Henry

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Edgard Varese

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Child, Lydia M.

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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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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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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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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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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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Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

James, William

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von