Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

William Hazlitt

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lewes, George Henry

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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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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 an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Welles, Orson

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oscar Levant

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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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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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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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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Edgard Varese

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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