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…

- Cesare Lombroso

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

- Cesare Lombroso

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

- Cesare Lombroso

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.'

- Cesare Lombroso

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand

- Cesare Lombroso

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

- Cesare Lombroso

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

- Cesare Lombroso

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 clothe…

- Cesare Lombroso