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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Stael, Germaine De

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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

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

James, William

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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Ceran, C. W.

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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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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 one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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

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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

Wilde, Oscar