James Russell Lowell Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

  James Russell Lowell

  Freedom, Law, Atheism

  James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett Hale (1902). “Early prose writings of James Russell Lowell”

• Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

  James Russell Lowell

  Power, Men, Genius

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.356

• It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Doe, Genius, Literature

• The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true poet is he who detects the divine in the casual; and we somewhat suspect the depth of his insight into the past who cannot recognize the godlike of to-day under that disguise in which it always visits us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Past, Historical

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.109

• Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

  James Russell Lowell

  Brother, Men, People

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.49

• There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Soul, Genius

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.357

• Taste is the next gift to genius.

  James Russell Lowell

  Genius, Taste, Next

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.53

• To genius life never grows commonplace.

  James Russell Lowell

  Genius, Grows, Commonplace

• To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

  James Russell Lowell

  Genius, Tests, Common

• Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

  James Russell Lowell

  Genius, Originality, Human Nature

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.63

• A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

  James Russell Lowell

  Common Sense, Profound, Genius

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.132

• Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

  James Russell Lowell

  Memories, Attention, Genius

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.595, Delphi Classics

• There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

  James Russell Lowell

  Two, Speaks Out, Wish

  Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1871). “The North American Review”, p.196

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