Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Lewes, George Henry

Best Quotes about Genius

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Welles, Orson

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Ray, Man

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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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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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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 independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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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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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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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 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 is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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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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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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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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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ceran, C. W.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Hume, David

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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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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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

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

Edgard Varese

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

James, William

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

Child, Lydia M.