Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Edgard Varese

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

Ceran, C. W.

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

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

Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

19.

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

Welles, Orson

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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 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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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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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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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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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