Motivational Quotes

Genius

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Genius

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Aragon, Louis

Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

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

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

Lewes, George Henry

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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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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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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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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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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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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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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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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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 public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Oscar Wilde

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

Edgard Varese

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Oscar Levant

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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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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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Heine, Heinrich

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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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