Motivational Quotes

Genius

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

- Hamilton, Alexander

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Aragon, Louis

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Ceran, C. W.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Oscar Levant

Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Oscar Wilde

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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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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Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

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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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 man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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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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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Weil, Simone

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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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