Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Genius

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

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

Stein, Gertrude

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

William Hazlitt

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Wilde, Oscar

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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.

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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Ray, Man

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Edgard Varese

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

Oscar Levant

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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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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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von