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Genius Quotes by Denis Diderot
- I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must…
- Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
- Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
- Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason,…
- The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
- Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
- Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the…
- Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
More Genius Quotes
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius… — Charles Babbage
- If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope… — Joseph Addison
- The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. — Samuel Johnson
- There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society. — Ralph Waldo Emerson