Motivational Quotes

Genius

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Genius

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Wilde, Oscar

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

William Hazlitt

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Edison, Thomas A.

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

Picasso, Pablo

The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Ray, Man

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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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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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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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

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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 greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Oscar Wilde

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James, William

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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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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Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Ceran, C. W.

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lewes, George Henry

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