Beaten Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Towering genius disdains a beaten path... It sees no distinction in adding story to story... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. It sees no distinction in adding story to story upon the monuments of…

— Abraham Lincoln

Towering genius distains a beaten path.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.

— William Hazlitt

“Men of great genius, whether their work be in poetry, philosophy or art, stand in all ages like isolated heroes, keeping up single-handed a…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“As one whose genius has been duly certified by several dozen learned biographers, I think I may say a word or two on the…

— Stanisław Lem

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

— Ouida

“The man of genius may dwell unknown, but one always may recognize the path he has followed into the forest. It was a giant…

— Remy de Gourmont

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while…

— Robert Schumann

High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working…

— James Anthony Froude