Motivational Quotes

Genius

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Koestler, Arthur

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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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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What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing them -- that what has been said has still not been said enough.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Ceran, C. W.

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

Ray, Man

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

Oscar Levant

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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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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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John