Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Erasmus, Desiderius

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Wilde, Oscar

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Stael, Germaine De

Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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

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

Edgard Varese

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ray, Man

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Welles, Orson

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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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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 divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Oscar Levant

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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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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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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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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Lewes, George Henry

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