Motivational Quotes

Genius

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Oscar Wilde

To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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.

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

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, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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 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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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ray, Man

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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

James, William

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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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 real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

Lewes, George Henry

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

Edgard Varese

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Ceran, C. W.

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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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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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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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.