3 Jonathan Swift Quotes on Talent

Jonathan Swift quotes on talent

25. This evil fortune, which generally attends extraordinary men in the management of great affairs, has been imputed to divers causes, that need not be here set down, when so obvious a one occurs, if what a certain writer observes be true, that when a great genius appears in the world the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

51. Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows not of.

85. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.