Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Koestler, Arthur

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Ceran, C. W.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

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.

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

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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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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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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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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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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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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lewes, George Henry

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

Welles, Orson

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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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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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Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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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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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 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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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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When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ray, Man

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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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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 of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

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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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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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Weil, Simone

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

Koestler, Arthur

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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

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu