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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.
Intelligence depends on diligence, genius depends on accumulation.
It is not by genius, it is by suffering, and suffering alone, that one ceases to be a marionette.
I can see that the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled.
Poverty and Genius were coupled by the wisdom of Providence for wise and good ends, no doubt