Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

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

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

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 public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Oscar Wilde

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

James, William

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Lewes, George Henry

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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 independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

Samuel Butler

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edgard Varese

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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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, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Pound, Ezra

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Ray, Man

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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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.