Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Lewes, George Henry

Best Quotes about Genius

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

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

Edgard Varese

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

Koestler, Arthur

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Hume, David

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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

Lewes, George Henry

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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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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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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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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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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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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.

Samuel Butler

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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

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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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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

James, William

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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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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Pound, Ezra

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Fuller, Buckminster