Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Stael, Germaine De

Best Quotes about Genius

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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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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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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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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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oscar Levant

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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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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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Child, Lydia M.

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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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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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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

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

Edgard Varese

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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 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