Motivational Quotes

Genius

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Genius

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

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

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

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Weil, Simone

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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.

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

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.

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

Lewes, George Henry

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Oscar Levant

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

Hume, David

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

Ray, Man

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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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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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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Ceran, C. W.

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

Churchill, Winston

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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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