Motivational Quotes

Genius

Genius is of no country.

- Charles Churchill

Best Quotes about Genius

The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.

Samuel Butler

Genius sits in a glass house -- but in an unbreakable one --conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck. (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. New art, it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in ism.)

Klee, Paul

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

Wilde, Oscar

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Lewes, George Henry

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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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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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oscar Levant

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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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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Ceran, C. W.

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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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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 of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

James, William

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Pound, Ezra

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Genius is sorrow's child.