The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Isaac D'Israeli Quotes
d. 1848 United Kingdom
Isaac D'Israeli (11 May 1766 – 19 January 1848) received much of his education in Leiden and as early as his sixteenth year began his literary career with some verses to Dr. Johnson.
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The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795)
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Curiosities of Literature (1791)
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.
Miscellanies. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
Curiosities of Literature (1791)
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Curiosities of Literature (1791)
There is a society in the deepest solitude.
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