Motivational Quotes

Genius

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Oscar Levant

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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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

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Ceran, C. W.

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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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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 real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

Lewes, George Henry

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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 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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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 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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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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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

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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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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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