....every genius is also a bit of an idiot. If they are, and I suspect that this is true, does every idiot have the potential to be a genius? Instinctively, we want to answer 'no' to a question like that. Surely this is not a law that applies equally, either way round. Yet, as Samuel Beckett once said, 'Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.'
We must always be very careful before we start judging the wisdom, or otherwise, of others. We should be even more circumspect before making such assessments of ourselves.
We are never more discontented with others than when
we are discontented with ourselves. (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
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