Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Adams, Joey Lauren

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Ray, Man

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

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

Pound, Ezra

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

10.

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

Weil, Simone

11.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

12.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

13.

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 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

15.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

16.

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 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

18.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Stein, Gertrude

21.

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

24.

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

Lewes, George Henry

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

Oscar Wilde

28.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

37.

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

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

James, William

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Aragon, Louis

45.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hume, David

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