Motivational Quotes

Genius

Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

- Lund, Robert S.

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Child, Lydia M.

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.

Hubbard, Elbert

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 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

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 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

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

Aragon, Louis

Everybody denies I am a genius --but nobody ever called me one!

Welles, Orson

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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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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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

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Koestler, Arthur

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Edgard Varese

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

Oscar Levant

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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