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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Heine, Heinrich

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.

Carl Sagan

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

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Hume, David

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Welles, Orson

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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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 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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Lewes, George Henry

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

James, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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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 is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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 is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Ceran, C. W.

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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Ray, Man

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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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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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.