Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Oscar Levant

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

Calvino, Italo

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Oscar Levant

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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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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 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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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Stein, Gertrude

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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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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Ceran, C. W.

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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

Edgard Varese

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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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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 genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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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 nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Welles, Orson

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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.

Samuel Butler

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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 function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.