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Genius

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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Best Quotes about Genius

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing them -- that what has been said has still not been said enough.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

Picasso, Pablo

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Koestler, Arthur

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.

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

Lewes, George Henry

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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

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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Ceran, C. W.

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Aragon, Louis

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Ray, Man

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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 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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Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

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

Oscar Levant

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

Pound, Ezra

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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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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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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc