Motivational Quotes

Genius

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

- Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

Best Quotes about Genius

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

James, William

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

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

Edgard Varese

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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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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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

Adams, Joey Lauren

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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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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Oscar Levant

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

Welles, Orson

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Pound, Ezra

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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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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What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

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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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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

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca