Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.
The most brilliant statesman who ever lived, possessing the loftiest and keenest intellect of his time.
You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.
Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.
A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her
Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.
A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel.
When I think of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a guy who can wander into the confusion of life and sort of pluck out answers at will.
The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, "Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?" I couldn't think of anyone.
The genius does not differ from others in their access to the light within, only in their confident acceptance of its natural outstreaming.
Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions.
Common sense is as rare as genius.
Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.
