Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Welles, Orson

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Edgard Varese

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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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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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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Pound, Ezra

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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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.

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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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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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Aragon, Louis

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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 is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Wilde, Oscar