Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use

Quote by William Hazlitt

Topics: Genius Quotes

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire...

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire...

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than...

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than...

An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself

An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures...

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures...

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have...

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have...

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton...

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton...

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere...

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere...

I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I...

I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I...

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes,...

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes,...

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day,...

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day,...

Without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action.

Without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with...

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with...

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the...

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the...

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.