Cesare Lombroso famous quotes

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses
-- Cesare Lombroso

#Men #Honor #Genius

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
-- Cesare Lombroso

#Insanity #Genius #Form

It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.
-- Cesare Lombroso

#Cutting #Clothes #Analysis

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

#Men #Genius #Crowds

God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.
-- Cesare Lombroso

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand
-- Cesare Lombroso

#Men #Ignorant #Adore

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'
-- Cesare Lombroso

#Passages

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
-- Cesare Lombroso

#Genius #Mediocrity #Birth

I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.

This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.