Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

Best Quotes about Genius

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

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

Hume, David

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Aragon, Louis

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

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

Weil, Simone

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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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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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lewes, George Henry

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Ceran, C. W.

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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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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 nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Ray, Man

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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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Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

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

Edison, Thomas A.