Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Motivational, Pain

• Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Humor, Poetic License, Perfection

  Thomas Carlyle (1825). “Carlyle's Works ...”

• We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fall, Inspiration, People

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.76, Cambridge University Press

• The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sprung Up, Clothes, Effort

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.166

• The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Iron, People, Feelings

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.43, 北戴河出版

• 'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Genius, Statistics

  History of Frederick the Great bk. 4, ch. 3 (1858 - 1865).

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