Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Edgard Varese

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Child, Lydia M.

Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Welles, Orson

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Edgard Varese

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

Churchill, Winston

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All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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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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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Samuel Butler

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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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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The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

Hume, David

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

40.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Lewes, George Henry

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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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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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork