Motivational Quotes

Genius

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

- Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Koestler, Arthur

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.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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 nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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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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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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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Ray, Man

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Edgard Varese

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

Welles, Orson

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.