Motivational Quotes

Genius

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Genius

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Welles, Orson

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Pound, Ezra

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

Lewes, George Henry

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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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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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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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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Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

Joyce, James

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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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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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

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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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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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

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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 essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Oscar Levant

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Samuel Butler

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Child, Lydia M.