Intelligence Quote by Ritu Ghatourey

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly…

— Guy de Maupassant

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source…

— Christoph Martin Wieland

There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to endure it…

— Andre Maurois

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

— Isaac Mayer Wise

genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to…

— Gertrude Atherton

“The mediocre can be educated; geniuses educate themselves.”

— Santiago Ramón y Cajal

It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while…

— Robert Schumann

Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors.

— Jubal

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

— Charles Horton Cooley

Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are…

— Wallace D. Wattles

Geniuses are not always pleasant people.

— Karen Armstrong