Motivational Quotes

Genius

Accept your genius and say what you think.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Genius

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

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.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Ray, Man

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

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

Stael, Germaine De

The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

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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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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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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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Samuel Butler

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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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 hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

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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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oscar Levant

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

Weil, Simone

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Pound, Ezra

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.