Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
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.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.
You just can’t tell. Brains won’t correlate with appearance.
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.