Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Samuel Butler

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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.

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pound, Ezra

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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Edgard Varese

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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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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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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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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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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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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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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Welles, Orson

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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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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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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.