Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Ray, Man

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Wilde, Oscar

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Oscar Levant

Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Stael, Germaine De

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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

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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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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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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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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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The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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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 is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ceran, C. W.

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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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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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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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