Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Genius

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Edgard Varese

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Welles, Orson

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

William Hazlitt

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Hume, David

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

James, William

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

Koestler, Arthur

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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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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Oscar Levant

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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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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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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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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

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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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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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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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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 see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Wilde, Oscar

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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.