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Category: Talent and Genius

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1. "Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius."

Thomas Carlyle

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Wit and Humor

2. "Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul."

Edwin Whipple

3. "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants."

Newton Isaac

4. "Responsibility is the price of greatness."

Winston Churchill

Quotations about: Various

5. "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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter to Mary Russell Mitford

Quotations about: Various

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

Larry Leissner

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Torquato Tasso"

Quotations about: Human -:- Various

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

Emile Zola

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

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

E. B. White

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

Konstantin Stanislavsky

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

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

14. "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

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

Edward de Bono

Quotations about: Happiness

16. "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"

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

George Steiner

18. "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

19. "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

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil"

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21. "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"

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

Franz Grillparzer, "Notebooks and Diaries"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

24. "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

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

Maya Angelou

26. "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

27. "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"

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

Brian W. Aldiss

Quotations about: Question and Problem

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

Oscar Levant

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

30. "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

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

Pablo Picasso

32. "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"

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

Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"

Quotations about: Various

34. "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

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

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

Salvador Dalí

Quotations about: Various

37. "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

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

Brian Tracy

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

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

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Quotations about: Art and Culture

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

Navjot Singh Sidhu

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

Thomas Alva Edison

Quotations about: Science and Technology

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

James Russell Lowell

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

Thomas Alva Edison

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

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

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

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

Margot Fonteyn

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

Jose Rizal

47. "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

48. "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

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

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Quotations about: Question and Problem

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

Cesare Lombroso

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

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