Motivational Quotes

Genius

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Oscar Wilde

Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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.

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

William Hazlitt

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aragon, Louis

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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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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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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 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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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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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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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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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 independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Weil, Simone

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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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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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 is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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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 hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Beauvoir, Simone De