Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

Quote by William Hazlitt

Topics: Genius Quotes

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every...

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every...

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with...

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with...

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays,...

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays,...

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has...

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has...

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in...

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in...

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not...

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not...

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better,...

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better,...

The more we do, the more we can do.

The more we do, the more we can do.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue...

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue...

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does...

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does...

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate...

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate...

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...

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns...

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns...

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.