1840s, Past and Present (1843)
“Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence.”
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson 727
American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882Related quotes
“The genius of the English has always been their ability to adapt.”
“Perhaps genius alone understands genius fully.”
Sometimes translated as: Perhaps only genius fully understands genius
Original: Vielleicht versteht nur der Genius den Genius ganz, Robert Schumann, Advice to Young Musicians, translation of Musikalische Haus- und Lebens-Regeln, translated by Henry Hugo Pierson, Leipsic & New York: J. Schuberth & Co., 1860.
Le génie enfante, le goût conserve. Le goût est le bon sens du génie; sans le goût, le génie n'est qu'une sublime folie.
François-René de Chateaubriand, in "Essai sur la littérature anglaise (1836): Modèles classiques http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=NUMM-101390&M=tdm.
Misattributed
“Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.”
As quoted in Dictionary of Foreign Quotations (1980) by Mary Collison, Robert L. Collison, p. 98