Cesare Lombroso: Genius

Cesare Lombroso was Italian criminologist. Explore interesting quotes on genius.
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“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.”

Cesare Lombroso

Source: The Man of Genius (1891), p. x.

“Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.”

Cesare Lombroso

As quoted in Born under Saturn: the character and conduct of artists : a documented history from antiquity to the French Revolution (1963) by Margot Wittkower.

“The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.”

Cesare Lombroso

Pt. II, ch. 2.
The Man of Genius (1891)