Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Erasmus, Desiderius

Best Quotes about Genius

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

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

Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Edgard Varese

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pound, Ezra

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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Ray, Man

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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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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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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Stael, Germaine De

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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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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.