Motivational Quotes

Genius

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.

Best Quotes about Genius

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.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

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

Hume, David

Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Lewes, George Henry

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

Welles, Orson

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Edgard Varese

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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 is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Oscar Levant

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

Oscar Wilde

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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 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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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.

Samuel Butler

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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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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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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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 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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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Ray, Man

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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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 is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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