Motivational Quotes

Genius

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Genius

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

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

Churchill, Winston

To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

10.

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.

11.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

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

Edgard Varese

13.

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.

14.

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

Lewes, George Henry

15.

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

Weil, Simone

16.

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

17.

Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

18.

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

19.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

20.

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

21.

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

22.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

Oscar Wilde

27.

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

Child, Lydia M.

28.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

29.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

35.

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

Samuel Butler

36.

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

37.

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

Adams, Joey Lauren

38.

Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

39.

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

41.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Stein, Gertrude

42.

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

43.

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

James, William

44.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

45.

The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

46.

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