"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one." ― E. B. White Topic(s): Intelligence More From E. B. White "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." "English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street." "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." More In Intelligence "Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity."― Samuel Beckett "I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic."― David Bowie "It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual’s intelligence or morality."― Christian Lous Lange