Cesare Lombroso quotes

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

Source : "A Treasury of Jewish Quotations". Book by Joseph L. Baron, 1985.

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

Source : "Born under Saturn: the character and conduct of artists : a documented history from antiquity to the French Revolution". Book by Margot Wittkower and Rudolf Wittkower, 1963.

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“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

Source : Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.11, Litres

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“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

Source : Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.7, Litres

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

Source : The Man of Genius pt. 1, ch. 2 (1891)

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

Source : Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.228, Litres

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“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

Source : The Man of Genius pt. 1, ch. 2 (1891)

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

Source : Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.116, Litres

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“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.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers

“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.”

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36

“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.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation

“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.”