Motivational Quotes

Genius

The divine egoism hat is genius.

- Webb, Mary

Best Quotes about Genius

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

James, William

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

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Weil, Simone

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.

Byron, Lord

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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Ceran, C. W.

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Welles, Orson

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Samuel Butler

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo