Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Wilde, Oscar

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

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

Heine, Heinrich

Carl Sagan

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

Ray, Man

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

Wilde, Oscar

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 the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Ceran, C. W.

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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 a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Edgard Varese

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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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What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Churchill, Winston

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Hume, David

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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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 is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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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