Motivational Quotes

Genius

Genius is independent of situation.

- Churchill, Charles

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Lewes, George Henry

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Ray, Man

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Welles, Orson

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Samuel Butler

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

Edgard Varese

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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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.