Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

Best Quotes about Genius

True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

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

Ceran, C. W.

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

Stein, Gertrude

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

Welles, Orson

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Pound, Ezra

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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, 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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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hume, David

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.

Crashaw, William

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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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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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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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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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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

William Hazlitt

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

Samuel Butler

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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