Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Lewes, George Henry

Best Quotes about 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

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

Joyce, James

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.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

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

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

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Koestler, Arthur

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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

Hume, David

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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 nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Edgard Varese

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Welles, Orson

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

James, William

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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 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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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Heine, Heinrich

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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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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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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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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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Edison, Thomas A.