Creative Quotations from . . .
Cesare Lombroso
(1836-1909) born on Nov 06
Italian "criminologist, physician, educator". "He founded the concept of "the born criminal", but advocated humane treatment in "L'umo delinquente," 1876."
 
   
F
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

R
The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.
A
"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.""
N
"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."
K
"Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," by John Bartlett, 1937, 1980, 1992."
R: ""The Man of Genius," pt. III, ch. 3."
A: "In "Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," by John Bartlett, 1937, 1980, 1992."
N: "In "Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World," by Edythe Draper, 1992."
K: ""The Man of Genius," 1891."



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