Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Genius

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

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

Edgard Varese

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

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Ray, Man

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

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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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 nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Oscar Levant

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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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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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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 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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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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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

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

Pound, Ezra

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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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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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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

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

Lewes, George Henry

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

James, William

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Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

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

Weil, Simone

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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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