Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Stael, Germaine De

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Welles, Orson

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

Hume, David

The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

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.

Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Aragon, Louis

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

James, William

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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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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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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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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Oscar Levant

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Ray, Man

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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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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 sits in a glass house -- but in an unbreakable one --conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck. (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. New art, it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in ism.)

Klee, Paul

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.

Samuel Butler

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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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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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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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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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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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Edgard Varese

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett