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

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

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Picasso, Pablo

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.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hume, David

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

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

Edgard Varese

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Ray, Man

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Welles, Orson

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Beauvoir, Simone 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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Levant

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Stael, Germaine De

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Pound, Ezra

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