Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Genius

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Weil, Simone

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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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

Edgard Varese

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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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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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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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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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Ray, Man

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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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Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Welles, Orson

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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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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

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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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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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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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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Aragon, Louis

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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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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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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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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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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 a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.