Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Ray, Man

Best Quotes about Genius

Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Child, Lydia M.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Wilde, Oscar

Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Stael, Germaine De

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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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Welles, Orson

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

Pound, Ezra

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Heine, Heinrich

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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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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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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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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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Ray, Man

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Erasmus, Desiderius