Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Best Quotes about Genius

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

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

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

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

Pound, Ezra

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Wilde, Oscar

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Edgard Varese

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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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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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.

Samuel Butler

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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.

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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 principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Koestler, Arthur

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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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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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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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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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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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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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 real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

Lewes, George Henry

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

Ceran, C. W.

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Hume, David

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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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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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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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Aragon, Louis

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