Motivational Quotes

Genius

The divine egoism hat is genius.

- Webb, Mary

Best Quotes about Genius

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

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

Child, Lydia M.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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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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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edgard Varese

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Oscar Wilde

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Ceran, C. W.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Welles, Orson

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

Ray, Man

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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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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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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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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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Heine, Heinrich

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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 greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Samuel Butler