Dullness Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

— Samuel Foote

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

— Samuel Johnson

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

— E. V. Lucas

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

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

— John Taylor Gatto

Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is…

— Frank X. Barron

Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them…

— William James

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow