Motivational Quotes

Genius

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Genius

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

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.

Beauvoir, Simone De

Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Ray, Man

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ceran, C. W.

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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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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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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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 independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

James, William

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

Edgard Varese

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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 a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Hume, David

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

Aragon, Louis

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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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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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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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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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