Decline Quote by Bruce Charlton

“I’ve always been suspicious of the assumption that great intelligence would be an unqualified benefit— that the madness that so often accompanies it can…

— Andrew M. Ryan

“believe that genius is a path that we can all take and derive much benefit, happiness, fulfillment, and success from...not a genetic windfall”

— Sean Patrick

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

— Ezra Pound

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence…

— Paul Bremer

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.

— Kelly Miller

The persecution of genius fosters its influence.

— Tacitus

“By no stretch of the imagination or of standards of genius,” Sorokin concluded, “is the ‘gifted group’ as a whole ‘gifted.’ ” By the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Genius in the popular sense has become common. (...) Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe,…

— Knut Hamsun

“Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of…

— Albert Sánchez Piñol

Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.

— Samuel Butler

Ive concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we havent yet figured out how to manage a…

— John Taylor Gatto