Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Genius
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The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.
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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
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Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.
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Genius, when young, is divine.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.
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The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.
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Benjamin Disraeli
- Born: December 21, 1804
- Died: April 19, 1881
- Occupation: Former Leader of the House of Commons
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