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 is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Ceran, C. W.

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.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Stein, Gertrude

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

James, William

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Heine, Heinrich

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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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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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

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

Ray, Man

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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 one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

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

Edgard Varese

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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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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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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir