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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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Best Quotes about Genius

1.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Nabokov, Vladimir

2.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.
The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Weil, Simone

5.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Wilde, Oscar

6.
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

7.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Seneca

8.
Genius is sorrow's child.
Adams, John

9.
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

10.
The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
Lewes, George Henry

11.
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Huxley, Aldous

12.
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
Beauvoir, Simone De

13.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Edison, Thomas A.

14.
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

15.
The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.
Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

17.
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
Fuller, Buckminster

18.
The divine egoism hat is genius.
Webb, Mary

19.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Pound, Ezra

20.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
Heine, Heinrich

21.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Da Vinci, Leonardo

22.
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
Erasmus, Desiderius

23.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Holland, Josiah Gilbert

24.
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

25.
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

26.
Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
Hedge, Francis Herbert

27.
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.

28.
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
Fuller, Margaret

29.
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

30.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant

31.
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
Picasso, Pablo

32.
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
Child, Lydia M.

33.
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
William Hazlitt

35.
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.

36.
To see things in the seed is genius.
Lao-Tzu

37.
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

38.
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Hugo, Victor

39.
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.
Hubbard, Elbert

40.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

41.
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
Williams, Bern

42.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde

43.
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

44.
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.
James, William

45.
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.

46.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Auden, W. H.

47.
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Koestler, Arthur

48.
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
Edgard Varese

49.
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

50.
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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