Motivational Quotes

Genius

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Hume, David

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.

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

Picasso, Pablo

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oscar Levant

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

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

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

Ceran, C. W.

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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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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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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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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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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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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Welles, Orson

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Weil, Simone

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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, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Dahlberg, Edward

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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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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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 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

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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 divine egoism hat is genius.