Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Welles, Orson

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

Hume, David

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Pound, Ezra

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

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

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.

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

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 nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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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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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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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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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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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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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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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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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Weil, Simone

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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

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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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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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What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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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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 real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

Lewes, George Henry

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert