Expressive Quote by Walt Whitman

“To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

— Anuj

“Have you ever known a person who was highly intelligent, yet their lack of character destroyed your impression of them? Even though they may…

— Susan C. Young

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The devoid of talent and unskilled ones repudiate the value of one's writing that even is beautiful, and visionary, since one holds minor status,…

— Ehsan Sehgal

The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around.

— Matthew Ashimolowo

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

— Isaac Mayer Wise

He is forced to be literate about the illiterate, witty about the witless and coherent about the incoherent.

— John Crosby

Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience,…

— Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

“Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves stomach if…

— Matthew Scully

“Genius is the ability to leave entirely out of sight our own interest, our willing, and our aims, and consequently to discard entirely our…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

— Friedrich August von Hayek