Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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

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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 independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Hume, David

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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Samuel Butler

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

Oscar Levant

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

Oscar Wilde

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Stein, Gertrude

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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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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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 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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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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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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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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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 an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

Lowell, James Russell