Top 8 Quotes by Cesare Lombroso

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

Cesare Lombroso

Men, Honor, Genius

"A Treasury of Jewish Quotations". Book by Joseph L. Baron, 1985.

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

Cesare Lombroso

Insanity, Genius, Form

"Born under Saturn: the character and conduct of artists : a documented history from antiquity to the French Revolution". Book by Margot Wittkower and Rudolf Wittkower, 1963.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

Cesare Lombroso

Genius, Mediocrity, Birth

Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.116, Litres

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand

Cesare Lombroso

Men, Ignorant, Adore

Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.228, Litres

God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.

Cesare Lombroso

Forgetful, Forgetfulness, Knows

The Man of Genius pt. 1, ch. 2 (1891)

It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.

Cesare Lombroso

Cutting, Clothes, Analysis

Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.11, Litres

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Cesare Lombroso

Men, Genius, Crowds

Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.7, Litres