Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.
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.
Aeschylus had a clear eye for the commonest things. His genius was only an enlarged common sense.
I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius — I am one.
I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!
He's a genius...a classical dancer like I never saw in my life.
Genius does not only require superior knowledge and skill, but also superior patience.
—Y’know, fact that nobody understands you doesn’t mean you’re some kinda genius.
Arabic science was the fruit of Semitic genius fertilized by the Iranian genius.
The genius of the English has always been their ability to adapt.
He is a literary genius. Also the most nonjudgmental decent guy. He forgives.