Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Fuller, Buckminster

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Stein, Gertrude

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

Samuel Butler

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Edgard Varese

The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Welles, Orson

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

James, William

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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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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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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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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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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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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ceran, C. W.

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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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Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Churchill, Winston

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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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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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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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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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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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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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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.

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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Erasmus, Desiderius