Motivational Quotes

Genius

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Auden, W. H.

To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lewes, George Henry

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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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 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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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

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

James, William

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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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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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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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 of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Oscar Wilde

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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 reduce the complicated to the simple.

Ceran, C. W.

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

Ray, Man

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

Stael, Germaine De

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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