Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Genius

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

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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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

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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 one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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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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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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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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 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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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Oscar Levant

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Ray, Man

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic