Motivational Quotes

Genius

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

- Williams, Bern

Best Quotes about Genius

To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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.

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

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Edgard Varese

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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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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Genius sits in a glass house -- but in an unbreakable one --conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck. (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. New art, it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in ism.)

Klee, Paul

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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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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Pound, Ezra

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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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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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Ray, Man

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Stael, Germaine De

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Welles, Orson

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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.