Behinds Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The reason why I consider myself a clever man is simply because I could never in my life finish anything I'd started. All right,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.

— Kristin Cashore

All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.

— Thomas Sowell

A human has to be that smart, to know how stupid he needs to be.

— Ruben Papian

There's something very funny about giving a menial task to a genius and watching him find so much complexity and overanalyse it to such…

— Simon Helberg

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Obviously if you're playing some of the smartest men in the world, you want to sound really smart.

— Matthew William Goode

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

— Lytton Strachey

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.

— Jonathan Nolan