Felix Schelling quotes

“True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.”
-- Felix Schelling

#Education Quotes #Individuality Quotes #Genius Quotes

“Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.”
-- Felix Schelling

#Men Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Architecture is petrified music.”
-- Felix Schelling

#Architecture Quotes

“To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.”

“Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.”

“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.”

“All I have learned, I learned from books.”

“If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.”

“Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.”

Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël: A Study of Her Life and Times: the First Revolution and the First Empire”

“Genius can never despise labour.”

Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”

“Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.”

“There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.”

Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (2002). “Infelicia and Other Writings”, p.80, Broadview Press

“Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life...”