Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Ceran, C. W.

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Oscar Levant

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

Hume, David

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

Edgard Varese

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

Lewes, George Henry

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ceran, C. W.

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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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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Aragon, Louis

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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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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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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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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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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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ray, Man

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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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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

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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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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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

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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 a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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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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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

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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 public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert