Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about 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

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Samuel Butler

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Oscar Levant

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

Hume, David

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

James, William

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

Edgard Varese

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

Ceran, C. W.

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

Ray, Man

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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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Lewes, George Henry

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Koestler, Arthur

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Weil, Simone

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John