Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

Best Quotes about Genius

1.

The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

2.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

3.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

4.

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

5.

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

Welles, Orson

6.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

7.

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

8.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

12.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

16.

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

17.

Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

18.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

19.

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.

20.

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.

21.

Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

22.

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

23.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

24.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

27.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Auden, W. H.

28.

Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

29.

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

Ceran, C. W.

30.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

31.

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

32.

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

33.

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.

34.

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

Child, Lydia M.

35.

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

Heine, Heinrich

36.

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.

37.

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.

38.

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

40.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

41.

Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

42.

True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

43.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

44.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

45.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

47.

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

James, William

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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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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

50.

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.