Lombroso Cesare Quotes & Sayings

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand. — Cesare Lombroso

[G]enius is a true degenerative psychosis belonging to the group of moral insanity . . . — Cesare Lombroso

Thank goodness her father isn't here. Talyn, you should warn him before Nykyrian returns that he has no sense of humor about males courting his daughter." Talyn let out an evil laugh. "Why should I? I look forward to the entertainment. Am thinking I should take odds on it."

-Kiara & Talyn — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

most powerful military in the world is sent to do a task best accomplished by schoolteachers, police forces, persuasion, and time. — Mohsin Hamid

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

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

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. — Theodor Adorno

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process. — Michael Steele

You can channel a lot within a comic framework, and I think 'The Guard' had a lot going on outside of the comedy, which is satisfying. — Brendan Gleeson

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about. — Ernest Gaines

In advanced practice there is a sense of commitment to the study. It is happy; it's never forced. It is a natural evolutionary process of an evolved being. — Frederick Lenz

I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a cityscape or a landscape with just your mind, and not your body, it becomes like a picture or representation, not something you really engage with. — Olafur Eliasson

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

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity. — Cesare Lombroso

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.' — Cesare Lombroso

Try to be free: you will die of hunger. — Emile M. Cioran

I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt. — Joseph Conrad

A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there. — Wolfgang Puck

What are you reading now? I have little time to read when I am here, but while at home I had a feast in the reading line, I can assure you ... Am not I a pendant for telling you what I have been reading? (May 16, 1848 to Abiah Root) — Emily Dickinson