Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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.
Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.
He told me that it isn't what you do but how you do it that shows whether you are clever or not.
Genius is but the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
Intelligence is too subtle an attribute to be inferred from appearance.
People who claim there is no such thing as native intelligence are nuts.
God thinks in the geniuses, dreams in the poets, and sleeps in the other people.
"Genius" (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).
Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.