Motivational Quotes

Genius

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Genius

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Oscar Wilde

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.

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

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

Hume, David

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

Oscar Levant

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

Welles, Orson

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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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

Aragon, Louis

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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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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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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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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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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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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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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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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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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

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 is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

Pound, Ezra