"Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of…" — William Hazlitt
"Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use"
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493 Quotes by William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt has 493 quotes on this site.
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look,…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund…
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been…
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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More Genius Quotes
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Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
— Pietro Aretino
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
— Pietro Aretino
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
— Aristotle
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium…
— Antonin Artaud
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow…
— Charles Babbage
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
— Francis Bacon
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much…
— Francis Bacon
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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not…
— Honore de Balzac
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may…
— George Matthew Adams
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