Genius Quote by Tacitus Download Open image “The persecution of genius fosters its influence.” — Tacitus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Genius Influence Intelligence Persecution Talent
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Genius has now all-but disappeared from public view; partly because intelligence (which is strongly genetic) is in decline in the West, partly because social… — Bruce Charlton Copy Share Image
It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
“Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates through it.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
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