Cesare Lombroso Quotes

Cesare Lombroso was an Italian criminologist, physician, and founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology. Lombroso rejected the established classical school, which held that crime was a characteristic trait of human nature.

Birth: November 06, 1835 - Death: October 19, 1909

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

Topic(s): Genius , Birth , Hundred

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.

Topic(s): Men , Wells , Reason

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

Topic(s): Form , Genius , Insanity

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, ‘God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.’

Topic(s): Knows , Passages

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

Topic(s): Men , Speak , Genius

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand

Topic(s): Men , Ignorant , Adore

God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.

Topic(s): Knows , Forgetfulness , Forgetful

It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.

Topic(s): Cutting , Proud , Clothes

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Cesare Lombroso Quotes