Motivational Quotes

Genius

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Genius

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 is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Ceran, C. W.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Trevor-Roper, H. R.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Aragon, Louis

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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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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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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 hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Oscar Levant

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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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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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 the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo