Motivational Quotes

Genius

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Stael, Germaine De

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Stein, Gertrude

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

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

Koestler, Arthur

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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 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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Welles, Orson

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Ceran, C. W.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

Weil, Simone

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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Oscar Wilde

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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

Joyce, James

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

Samuel Butler

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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.