Motivational Quotes

Genius

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

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Genius

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

Lewes, George Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Ceran, C. W.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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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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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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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.

Byron, Lord

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

Oscar Wilde

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 of no country.

Charles Churchill

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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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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 hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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 is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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