I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function. — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
“There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Incapable of emotion—high-functioning Asperger's Syndrome with areas of prodigious savant skills.” — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Though I thoroughly enjoyed playing crime branch officer Gautam Savant, it drained a lot out of me, too. It shook my faith… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
Savant syndrome, characteristically, consists of left hemisphere dysfunction coupled with right hemisphere emergence, and what you see in the savant are basically… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
What I hope 'Mastry' ends up doing is completely undermining or doing away with the notion that artists are a savant: that… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that to… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
“Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and by the very knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Savant syndrome is not a disorder in the same way as autism is a disorder or dementia is a disorder. Savant syndrome… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
When I met my first savant in 1962, I was impressed by the abilities in these youngsters who had severe disabilities. They… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
A savant, by definition, is somebody who has a disability and, along with that disability, has some remarkable ability. Prodigies and geniuses… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
“first, he called idiot savant. The type of person who is so smart in his or her field of expertise that their… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
“If there is one fable, which would seem entitled to escape the analysis, which we have undertaken of religious poems and sacred… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
