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Genius Quotes by William Hazlitt
- The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
- The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
- Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
- If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea…
- Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a…
- Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
- His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius,…
- Rules and models destroy genius and art.
- People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
- Dandyism is a variety of genius.
- If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we…
- Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use
More Genius Quotes
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius… — Charles Babbage
- The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. — Francis Bacon
- Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large,… — Francis Bacon
- From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal… — Honore de Balzac
- Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all… — George Matthew Adams