Motivational Quotes

Genius

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

- Ray, Man

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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

James, William

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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 is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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

Churchill, Winston

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

Ray, Man

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Adams, Joey Lauren

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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.

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

Samuel Butler

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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

Ceran, C. W.

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

Weil, Simone

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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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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Edgard Varese

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Heine, Heinrich