Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Wilde, Oscar

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Oscar Levant

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

James, William

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Koestler, Arthur

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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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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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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 of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Ray, Man

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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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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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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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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Lewes, George Henry

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Oscar Wilde

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Heine, Heinrich

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The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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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 nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.