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Category: Talent and Genius

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1. "Responsibility is the price of greatness."

Winston Churchill

Quotations about: Various

2. "The poet's scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death."

Edmund Spenser, "The Shepherd's Calendar"

Quotations about: Memory

3. "What is genius - but the power of expressing a new individuality?"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter to Mary Russell Mitford

Quotations about: Various

4. "If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius."

Larry Leissner

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

5. "Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Torquato Tasso"

Quotations about: Human -:- Various

6. "An Artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

Emile Zola

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Work and Laziness

7. "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

Thomas Jefferson

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

8. "Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."

E. B. White

9. "Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation."

Konstantin Stanislavsky

10. "Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven."

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

11. "Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art."

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

12. "Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."

Edward de Bono

Quotations about: Happiness

13. "Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth."

Denis Diderot, "Selected Writings"

14. "A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise."

George Steiner

15. "There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while."

Pearl Bailey

16. "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."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "Notes on the Novel"

Quotations about: Various

17. "Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil"

18. "Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful."

Franz Grillparzer, "Notebooks and Diaries"

19. "Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun."

Franz Grillparzer, "Notebooks and Diaries"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

20. "Every man is a potential genius until he does something."

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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21. "Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen."

Uta Hagen, "Respect for Acting"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

22. "Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it."

Maya Angelou

23. "There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him."

Antonin Artaud, "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society"

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

24. "Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful tone is silenced."

Franz Grillparzer, "Notebooks and Diaries"

25. "Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem."

Brian W. Aldiss

Quotations about: Question and Problem

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

Oscar Levant

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

27. "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

28. "The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."

Pablo Picasso

29. "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."

Henri-Frederic Amiel, "Journal Intime"

30. "Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness."

Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"

Quotations about: Various

31. "At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman."

Honoré De Balzac

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Woman and Man

32. "The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

33. "Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."

Salvador Dalí

Quotations about: Various

34. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Work and Laziness

35. "Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."

Brian Tracy

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

36. "The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Quotations about: Art and Culture

37. "Talent is nothing if it's not controlled, harnessed and disciplined."

Navjot Singh Sidhu

38. "I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it."

Thomas Alva Edison

Quotations about: Science and Technology

39. "Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is."

James Russell Lowell

40. "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Thomas Alva Edison

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

41. "Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once."

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

42. "Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable."

Margot Fonteyn

43. "Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all."

Jose Rizal

44. "Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. Those of us who are not so tall have to choose!"

Richard Feynman

45. "Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics."

Cesare Lombroso

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

46. "Genius sees the answer before the question."

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Quotations about: Question and Problem

47. "Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."

Cesare Lombroso

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

48. "A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin."

Ayn Rand, "The Virtue of Selfishness"

49. "Passion is the genesis of genius."

Anthony Robbins

50. "Talent is only the starting point."

Irving Berlin

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