Only in an atmosphere of freedom can the creative genius of the human spirit find full expression.
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.
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
Those who have doubted my veracity have paid a compliment to my genius.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
It requires genius to make a good pun—some men of bright parts can't reach it.
The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light.