Motivational Quotes

Genius

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.

Best Quotes about Genius

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

Everybody denies I am a genius --but nobody ever called me one!

Welles, Orson

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Ceran, C. W.

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Edgard Varese

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Ray, Man

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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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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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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Stael, Germaine De

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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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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