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

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Samuel Butler

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Aragon, Louis

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Ray, Man

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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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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Child, Lydia M.

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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 is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Edgard Varese

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

Oscar Levant

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Welles, Orson

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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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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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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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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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.