Cleverness Quote by Charles Krauthammer

Intelligence could be more briliant within modesty.

— Toba Beta

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

— Andre Gide

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

— Isaac Mayer Wise

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

— Matthew Arnold

It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close…

— Mark Twain

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

— John Taylor Gatto

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses…

— James Morcan

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, lovethat is the soul of…

— AB

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“I’ve come to believe that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us. I didn’t want to accept that…

— John Taylor Gatto

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius