Famous Quotes

"All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens."

Willa Cather on Intelligence

More quotes about Intelligence

• "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

More quotes by Willa Cather

• "Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

• "There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."

• "I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived."

• "Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."

• "The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."