Motivational Quotes

Genius

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Genius

The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

Lowell, James Russell

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Churchill, Winston

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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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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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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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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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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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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Stein, Gertrude

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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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

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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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

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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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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Welles, Orson