Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Dahlberg, Edward

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Edgard Varese

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Weil, Simone

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ray, Man

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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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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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Ceran, C. W.

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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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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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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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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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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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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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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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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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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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

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

Aragon, Louis

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

James, William

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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