Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Genius

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Ray, Man

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Wilde, Oscar

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Koestler, Arthur

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Heine, Heinrich

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

James, William

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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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 one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

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

Samuel Butler

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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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.

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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 the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Ceran, C. W.

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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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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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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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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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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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

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

Stein, Gertrude