Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- William Hazlitt

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

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

Lewes, George Henry

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ray, Man

The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Welles, Orson

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Stael, Germaine De

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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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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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

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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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Edgard Varese

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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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Child, Lydia M.

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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Aragon, Louis