A Quote by Honore de Balzac

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

Honore de Balzac

Quote Topics

Genius Necessity Often Spur

Quote Author

Honore de Balzac
French - Novelist
May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850

Necessity is the spur of genius.

Honore de Balzac

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.

James Payn

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

Anna C. Brackett

True understanding is the spur of genius

Ursula K. Le Guin

Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.

Orison Swett Marden

Vanity is often the unseen spur.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Out of necessity comes genius.

Pam Grier

Bravery is often too sharp a spur.

Lajos Kossuth

Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.

Otto Weininger

Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention.

Carisa Bianchi

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.

Jeffrey Archer

It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius. Was it his genius that drove him to work hard, or was it hard work that resulted in works of genius?

James N. Frey

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

Isaac D'Israeli

I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.

Jerome K. Jerome

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.

Thomas A. Edison

A Quote by Honore de Balzac

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors