Motivational Quotes

Genius

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.

Best Quotes about Genius

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.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

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

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.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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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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 an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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.

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hume, David

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Oscar Levant

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.