Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Genius

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

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

Lowell, James Russell

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Stein, Gertrude

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

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

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Weil, Simone

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lewes, George Henry

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

Churchill, Winston

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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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 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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All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone. That's probably because school hasn't encouraged us to notice what's hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself.

Kline, Peter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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 is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Welles, Orson

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ray, Man

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Picasso, Pablo