Max Beerbohm Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

  Max Beerbohm

  Humility, Acceptance, Triumph

  Saturday Review, 5 Nov. 1904 See Maugham 11

• Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

  Max Beerbohm

  Genius, Fields, Sometimes

• Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

  Max Beerbohm

  Stupid, Character, Men

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.94, New York Review of Books

• Men of genius are not quick judges of character.

  Max Beerbohm

  Character, Men, Judging

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.94, New York Review of Books

• I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

  Max Beerbohm

  Spiritual, Men, Genius

  And Even Now (1920) "No. 2, The Pines"

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