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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
- Beauvoir, Simone De
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Best Quotes about Genius

1.
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

2.
True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.
Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

3.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Weil, Simone

4.
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

5.
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
Williams, Bern

6.
The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
Picasso, Pablo

8.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Nabokov, Vladimir

9.
Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Lund, Robert S.

10.
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

11.
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
Hume, David

12.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
Heine, Heinrich

13.
To see things in the seed is genius.
Lao-Tzu

14.
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.
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

16.
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
Fuller, Buckminster

18.
Everybody denies I am a genius --but nobody ever called me one!
Welles, Orson

19.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Pound, Ezra

20.
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

21.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Auden, W. H.

22.
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

23.
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

24.
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

25.
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Aragon, Louis

26.
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.

27.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Stael, Germaine De

28.
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

29.
Genius is of no country.
Charles Churchill

30.
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
Hayden, B. R.

31.
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

32.
Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.
Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

33.
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

34.
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
Samuel Butler

35.
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

36.
The divine egoism hat is genius.
Webb, Mary

37.
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
Adams, Joey Lauren

38.
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

39.
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

40.
Accept your genius and say what you think.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Edison, Thomas A.

42.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

43.
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

44.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Wilde, Oscar

45.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.
Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

47.
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.
James, William

48.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
William Hazlitt

49.
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

50.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Holland, Josiah Gilbert


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