Genius Quote by Anonymous

“Plague did not honor social class, and mortality among the nobility approximated that of the general population.”

— Robert Steven Gottfried

“There had been as many plagues in the world as there had been wars, yet plagues and wars always find people equelly unprepared.”

— Albert Camus

So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.

— Albert Camus

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

— Michel de Montaigne

“No comparable mortality had been experienced since the bubonic plague nearly five hundred years before, and modern medical science stood impotent before the pestilence.”

— Joseph E. Persico

“Bubonic plague killed a third of the people in Europe, but it destroyed the old governments and allowed their citizens to gain freedom. The…

— Nancy Farmer

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

— Douglas Adams

“Michael Oldstone, in his book Viruses, Plagues, and History, wrote: “The obliteration of diseases that impinge on our health is a regal yardstick of…

— Molly Caldwell Crosby

A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague.

— Marianne Moore

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too…

— Stephen King

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution…

— Antonin Artaud

I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other…

— Mark Helprin