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.
When thou seest an Eagle, thou seest a portion of Genius; lift up thy head!
Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.
But since he had
The genius to be loved, why let him have
The justice to be honoured in his grave.
We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away.
“Genius such as yours is a genetic gift.”
“So I have heard from my parents.”
"In the end, it is the genius or tutelary spirit in imagination shall save humanity and earth.”