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

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

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

William Hazlitt

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Dahlberg, Edward

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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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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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Ray, Man

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

Oscar Levant

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

Edgard Varese

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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 one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Child, Lydia M.

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Stael, Germaine De

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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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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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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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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

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

Lewes, George Henry

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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Genius sits in a glass house -- but in an unbreakable one --conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck. (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. New art, it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in ism.)

Klee, Paul

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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.

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu