Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

William Hazlitt

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Hume, David

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

Ray, Man

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Picasso, Pablo

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Weil, Simone

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

James, William

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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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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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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Ceran, C. W.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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 public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Oscar Wilde

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Edgard Varese

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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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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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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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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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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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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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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Lewes, George Henry

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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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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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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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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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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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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.