Motivational Quotes

Genius

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Hubbard, Elbert

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Lewes, George Henry

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Pound, Ezra

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Weil, Simone

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ray, Man

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

Ceran, C. W.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Edgard Varese

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

Picasso, Pablo