Isaac D'Israeli Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Philosophy, Science, Imagination

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, chapter XII, 1795-1822.

• Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Life, Motivational, Secret

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226, Literary Character, Chapter XII. Last lines, 1922.

• To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Men, Thinking, Two

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, chapter II, 1795-1822.

• Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Feelings, Events, Genius

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, chapter XXV, 1795-1822.

• Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Love Is, Self, Class

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, chapter XV, 1795-1822.

• Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Nurse, Solitude, Genius

• Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Men, Genius, Arise

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1795-1822.

• Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Genius, Fortune, Companion

  "Curiosities of Literature, Poverty of the Learned". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1766 - 1848.

• The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Wise, Art, Eye

• Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Design, Secret

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226, Literary Character, Chapter XII. Last lines, 1922.

• The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Art, Style, Genius

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 598-600, Curiosities of Literature, Professors of Plagiarism and Obscurity, 1922.

• Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Philosophical, Imagination, Age

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1795 - 1822.

• The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Men, Genius, Care

  "Literary Character of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, chapter XVI, 1795-1822.

• Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Education, Age, Genius

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