Motivational Quotes

Genius

Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

- Lund, Robert S.

Best Quotes about Genius

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Ray, Man

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

Welles, Orson

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Edgard Varese

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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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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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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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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Beauvoir, Simone De