Motivational Quotes

Genius

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Genius

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

Schlegel, Friedrich

Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Hume, David

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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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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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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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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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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Weil, Simone

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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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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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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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Stael, Germaine De

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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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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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

Hayden, B. R.

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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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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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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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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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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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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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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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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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 might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.

Samuel Butler

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca