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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Oscar Levant

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

Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Pound, Ezra

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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 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 of no country.

Charles Churchill

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Edgard Varese

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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 the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Ceran, C. W.

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Ray, Man

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

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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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 is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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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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The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

Hume, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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To see things in the seed is genius.