We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Intelligence Quotes
Emerson leads this page, followed by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Isaac D’Israeli, the American humorist Josh Billings and Simone Weil. For sourced lines there is Disraeli, in Contarini Fleming (1832), saying patience is a necessary ingredient of genius, and Emerson in English Traits (1856), remarking that the hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
Three popular lines carry flags. “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent” is credited to Einstein and marked misattributed. A line about the centuries rarely producing a genius, credited to David Lloyd George, is also marked misattributed. William Feather’s remark that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person is disputed.
The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.
The literary world does quite like the notion of genius, but it has no place for a Picasso.
Intelligence is based on a deep respect for the dignity of others and one's own dignity.