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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
Genius Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Genius

1.
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.
James, William

2.
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.

3.
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

4.
Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Lund, Robert S.

5.
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Woolf, Virginia

6.
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

7.
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
Williams, Bern

8.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant

9.
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

10.
Genius is of no country.
Charles Churchill

11.
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.

12.
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.
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

14.
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Hugo, Victor

15.
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

16.
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

17.
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

18.
Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

19.
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

20.
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

21.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Churchill, Winston

22.
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
Edgard Varese

23.
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

24.
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.

25.
True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.
Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

26.
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

27.
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

28.
The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
Lewes, George Henry

29.
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

30.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Edison, Thomas A.

31.
The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

33.
Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

34.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Edison, Thomas A.

35.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Stael, Germaine De

36.
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

37.
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
Fuller, Buckminster

38.
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
Hume, David

39.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Holland, Josiah Gilbert

40.
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
Erasmus, Desiderius

41.
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

42.
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

43.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Auden, W. H.

44.
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

45.
The divine egoism hat is genius.
Webb, Mary

46.
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
Beauvoir, Simone De

47.
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.

48.
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
Picasso, Pablo

49.
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
Adams, Joey Lauren

50.
Everybody denies I am a genius --but nobody ever called me one!
Welles, Orson


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