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

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

Ray, Man

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Samuel Butler

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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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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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

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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pound, Ezra

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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Oscar Wilde

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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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

James, William

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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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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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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Weil, Simone

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

Edgard Varese

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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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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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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Stael, Germaine De

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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ceran, C. W.

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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

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Wilde, Oscar