Motivational Quotes

Genius

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

- Nabokov, Vladimir

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Edgard Varese

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Samuel Butler

Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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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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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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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.

James, William

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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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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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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 real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

Lewes, George Henry

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Aragon, Louis

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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 is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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