Motivational Quotes

Genius

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

- Heine, Heinrich

Best Quotes about Genius

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Fuller, Buckminster

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aragon, Louis

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

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

Edgard Varese

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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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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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Welles, Orson

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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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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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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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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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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Hume, David

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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 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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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Weil, Simone

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

Stael, Germaine De