Louisa May Alcott Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• Conceit spoils the finest genius.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Life, Conceited, Genius

  1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.7.

• It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Time, Learning, Men

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “Little Women”, p.254, Louisa May Alcott

• You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Real, Conceited, Long

  Louisa May Alcott (2012). “Little Women and Little Men”, p.198, Graphic Arts Books

• …because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Energy, Genius, Want

  Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy (2013). “Little Women: An Annotated Edition”, p.502, Harvard University Press

• Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Genius, Modesty, Little Women

  1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.7.

• Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Fall, Genius, Now And Then

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “Jo's Boys: Top Novelist Focus”, p.102, 谷月社

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