Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Lewes, George Henry

Best Quotes about Genius

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stael, Germaine De

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.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

James, William

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

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Ray, Man

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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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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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 an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Edgard Varese

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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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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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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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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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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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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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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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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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It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Stein, Gertrude

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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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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.