Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Dahlberg, Edward

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Weil, Simone

Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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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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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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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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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Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Oscar Levant

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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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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

James, William

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

Ceran, C. W.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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 one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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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 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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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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Accept your genius and say what you think.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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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