Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Beauvoir, Simone De

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

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

Weil, Simone

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

Hume, David

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

Hayden, B. R.

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

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

Lowell, James Russell

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.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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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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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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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Oscar Levant

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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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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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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oscar Wilde

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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

Welles, Orson

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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Churchill, Winston

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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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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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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 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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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