Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Edgard Varese

Best Quotes about Genius

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 independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Weil, Simone

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Ray, Man

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Child, Lydia M.

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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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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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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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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

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

Lewes, George Henry

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The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Koestler, Arthur

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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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

James, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Stael, Germaine De

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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