Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ceran, C. W.

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

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pound, Ezra

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.

Hubbard, Elbert

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Stein, Gertrude

Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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 nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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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 a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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 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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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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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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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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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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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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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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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 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 sits in a glass house -- but in an unbreakable one --conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck. (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. New art, it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in ism.)

Klee, Paul

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Oscar Levant

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

Edgard Varese

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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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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.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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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

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

Lewes, George Henry

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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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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc