Average Quote by Walter Lippmann

But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they’re brilliant and creative to begin with—which, unfortunately, is rarely the case—tend to leave…

— Anonymous

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect…

— Giorgio Vasari

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size…

— Max Beerbohm

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

— Charles Spurgeon

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary thinking ability.

— Ace Kid

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants…

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— William James

The man of genius is he whose ego has acquired consciousness. He is enabled by it to distinguish the fact that others are different,…

— Otto Weininger

Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.

— Loren Eiseley

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson