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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

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

Child, Lydia M.

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pound, Ezra

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Ray, Man

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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 the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Ceran, C. W.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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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 is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.

James, William

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

Edgard Varese

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Koestler, Arthur

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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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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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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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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von