Genius Quotes and Spiritual Sayings

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Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

~ Robert Brault

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

~ Oscar Levant

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“When you make a choice, you change the future.”

~ Deepak Chopra

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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

~ Albert Einstein

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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Genius is eternal patience.

~ Michelangelo

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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

~ Aldous Huxley

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

~ Tony Robbins

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Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

~ Henry Van Dyke

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To see things in the seed, that is genius.

~ Lao Tzu

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Genius is childhood recovered at will.

~ Charles Baudelaire

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All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.

~ Michael Carr

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This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

~ Deepak Chopra

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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

~ Calvin Coolidge

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

~ Leonardo da Vinci

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The source of genius is imagination alone.

~ Eugene Delacroix

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What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

~ Eugene Delacroix

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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

~ Thomas Alva Edison

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Every child is born a genius.

~ Albert Einstein

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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

~ Albert Einstein

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To believe in your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men – that is genius.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.

~ Buckminster Fuller

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

~ Buckminster Fuller

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The special genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

~ Margaret Fuller

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We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other peoples’ models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

~ Shakti Gawain

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Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before.

~ Seth Godin

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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones of genius.

~ Elbert Hubbard

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Genius is simply focus on a topic long enough to discover your own unique talent within.

~ Cheryl Janecky

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Genius involves figuring out who you are, and owning yourself. It's about amplifying your best traits and compensating for the rest. Geniuses grab life by the horns, and persevere amidst setbacks. They take control of their lives, instead of waiting for others to open up doors. In this very important sense, greatness in completely, utterly, made.

~ Scott Barry Kaufman

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow into their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond our wildest dreams.

~ Sidney Madwed

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Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

~ Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart

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Neither lofty degree of intelligence, nor imagination, nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love: that is the soul of genius.

~ Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart

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Genius is perseverance in disguise.

~ Mike Newlin

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That impossible dream you dreamed when you were young but got talked out of, the one you thought you outgrew, might be the key to awakening your genius. That special talent you never followed through on might be an important source of delight, the one you should commit to. That old dream might be the one thing that will bring the magic of meaning to your life.

~ Mark Victor Hansen & Barbara Nichols

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Genius is not so much about new ideas as it is about clarity of ideas. Two people can have the same idea yet it will be genius in the one and mediocrity in the other.

~ Kevin Solway

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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

~ Mark Twain

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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

~ Oscar Wilde

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.

~ Michael Gelb

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Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are the roads of genius.

~ William Blake

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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

~ Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

~ Buckminster Fuller

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Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a personality characteristic. It is not something that a person has, nor even something that someone is. Those in whom we recognize genius commonly disclaim it. A universal characteristic of genius is humility. The genius has always attributed his insights to some higher influence.

~ Dr. David Hawkins Quotes from Power vs. Force

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

~ William James

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Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.

~ Dr. David Hawkins Quotes from Power vs. Force

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To believe your own thoughts, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

~ Thomas A. Edison

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Genius is Omniscience flowing into man.

~ Wallace D. Wattles Quotes from The Science of Being Great

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Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.

~ Wallace D. Wattles Quotes from The Science of Being Great

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There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.

~ Wallace D. Wattles Quotes from The Science of Being Great

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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every moment of our lives we are either growing or dying—and it’s largely a choice, not fate. Throughout its life cycle, every one of the body’s trillions of cells is driven to grow and improve its ability to use more of its innate yet untapped capacity. Research biologist Albert Szent-Gyoergyi, who was twice awarded the Nobel Prize, called this syntropy, which he defined as the “innate drive in living matter to perfect itself.” It turns conventional thinking upside down…As living cells—or as people—there is no staying the same. If we aim for some middle ground or status quo, it’s an illusion—beneath the surface what’s actually happening is we’re dying, not growing. And the goal of a lifetime is continued growth, not adulthood. As Rene Dubos put it, “Genius is childhood recaptured.” For this to happen, studies show that we must recapture—or prevent the loss of—such child-like traits as the ability to learn, to love, to laugh about small things, to leap, to wonder, and to explore. It’s time to rescue ourselves from our grown-up ways before it’s too late.

~ Robert Cooper Quotes from The Other 90%: How to Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential for Leadership & Life

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I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.