Top 80 Genius Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”

— Pablo Picasso

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2. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”

— Steve Jobs

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3. “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”

— Aristotle

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4. “Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”

— Nikola Tesla

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5. “All the world’s a stage.”

— William Shakespeare

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6. “My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”

— Nikola Tesla

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7. “Genius is eternal patience. ”

— Michelangelo

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8. “It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

— Alfred Tennyson

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9. “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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10. “If music be the food of love, play on.”

— William Shakespeare

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11. “To see things in the seed, that is genius.”

— Lao Tzu

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12. “Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”

— Salvador Dalí

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13. “All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed – only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”

— Nikola Tesla

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14. “I’m not saying I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.”

— Tupac Shakur

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15. “Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”

— Michelangelo

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16. “There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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17. “Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.”

— Steve Jobs

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18. “I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

— William Blake

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19. “To be great is to be misunderstood.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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20. “Trust me. I’m a genius.”

— Eoin Colfer

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21. “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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22. “Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.”

— Archimedes

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23. “Brevity is the soul of wit.”

— William Shakespeare

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24. “The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.”

— Steve Jobs

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25. “If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.”

— Alan Cohen

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26. “No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”

— Isaac Newton

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27. “None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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28. “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

— Michelangelo

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29. “I want to put a ding in the universe.”

— Steve Jobs

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30. “If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can’t turn off. I dream equations all night.”

— Stephen Hawking

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31. “Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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32. “We believe people with passion can change the world for the better. That’s what we believe. And we believe that those people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that actually do.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Oscar Levant

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34. “I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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35. “A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”

— James Joyce

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36. “Let’s go invent tomorrow!”

— Steve Jobs

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37. “The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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38. “Talent borrows, genius steals!”

— Oscar Wilde

39. “To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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40. “Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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41. “Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

— Steve Jobs

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42. “A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.”

— Napoleon Hill

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43. “Listen to me. We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?”

— Steve Jobs

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44. “You’ve got to find what you love.”

— Steve Jobs

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45. “If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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46. “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”

— William Shakespeare

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47. “We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We’re creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We’re rewriting the history of human thought with what we’re doing.”

— Steve Jobs

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48. “Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex.”

— Albert Einstein

49. “Simplicity is the trademark of GENIUS.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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50. “A fool can become a genius when he understands he is a fool. But a genius can become a fool when he understands he is a genius.”

— Abdul Kalam