Motivational Quotes

Genius

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

- Stael, Germaine De

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Koestler, Arthur

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Samuel Butler

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

Wilde, Oscar

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Stael, Germaine De

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

Joyce, James

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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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 real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

Lewes, George Henry

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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 divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

James, William

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Oscar Levant

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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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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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Ceran, C. W.

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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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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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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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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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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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