Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Trevor-Roper, H. R.

Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Pound, Ezra

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

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

Ceran, C. W.

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

Welles, Orson

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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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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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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

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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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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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 faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Oscar Wilde

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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 is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Ray, Man

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

James, William

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)