No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Just as you should never confuse the law with common justice, intelligence should not be confused with common sense. Some of the brightest people in the world have no idea how to cross the road.
Sheer brilliance needs to be expressed properly.
If I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn't have needed to break the law just to survive.
A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.
I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law.
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.