Motivational Quotes

Genius

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

- Nabokov, Vladimir

Best Quotes about Genius

Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Ceran, C. W.

Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Weil, Simone

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

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

James, William

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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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 divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

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

Pound, Ezra

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The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

Lewes, George Henry

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Edgard Varese

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Welles, Orson

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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