Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Taste is the common sense of genius.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Taste is the feminine of genius.
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.