It was 3 on 1, but they were mentally challenged people, against one person of extraordinary genius.
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.
...talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.
58: Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
I didn’t choose painting … It chose me. I didn’t have any talent. I just had genius.
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius.