Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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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 sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Hume, David

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

Samuel Butler

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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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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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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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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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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 is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Oscar Levant

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

James, William

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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

Edgard Varese

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

Welles, Orson

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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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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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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Fuller, Buckminster