It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for 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.
I may not be a genius, but my opponents are certifiable idiots.
It took a particular genius and a great deal of luck to make war pay, and Richard had neither.
Gaiety — a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
The ordinary man casts a shadow. In a way we don't quite understand, the man of genius casts light.
The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.