Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Stael, Germaine De

Best Quotes about Genius

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.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Weil, Simone

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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 see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Stael, Germaine De

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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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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lewes, George Henry

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary