Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Edgard Varese

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

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Oscar Levant

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Welles, Orson

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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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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

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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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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

James, William

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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 nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

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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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Ray, Man

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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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

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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