Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Oscar Levant

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Churchill, Winston

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

Picasso, Pablo

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Ray, Man

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

Aragon, Louis

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

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

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Oscar Levant

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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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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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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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Welles, Orson

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

Hume, David

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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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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

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

Ceran, C. W.

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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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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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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Weil, Simone

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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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 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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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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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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.