Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Oscar Levant

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Oscar Wilde

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Weil, Simone

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

Edgard Varese

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

Lewes, George Henry

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

Hume, David

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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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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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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

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

James, William

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Ceran, C. W.

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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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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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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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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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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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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 a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Aragon, Louis

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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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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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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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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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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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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