Associates Quote by J. Lawton Collins

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

— Anonymous

If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated…

— Luc de Clapiers

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whoever puts his confidence in men or in any creature is very foolish.

— Anonymous

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

— Cesare Lombroso

“When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have then giver views to passion, without that proper deliberation…

— David Hume

Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is…

— William Hazlitt

A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.

— Henry David Thoreau

As far as my experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in this age, there appears to be…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne