Motivational Quotes

Genius

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

- Lydia M. Child

Best Quotes about 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.

To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Oscar Levant

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

Ray, Man

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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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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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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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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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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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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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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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The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

Trevor-Roper, H. R.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Ceran, C. W.

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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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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 sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Hume, David

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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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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan

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

James, William

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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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.