Cesare Lombroso Quotes

"Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses."
- Cesare Lombroso
(Related: Men, Goodness, Honor)

"The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities."
- Cesare Lombroso
(Related: Genius, Appearance)

"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
(Related: God, Meaning, Now)

"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
(Related: Men, Genius, Reason, Sense)

"Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."
- Cesare Lombroso
(Related: Genius, Insanity)