Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes about Intelligence
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
"Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 10th edition, 1919.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Entry for February 16, 1868, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.