C'est bien la le genie: l'intelligence qui connait ses frontieres.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- True genius is intelligence that knows its own limits.
- In plain terms
- Genius is smart enough to know what it does not know.
- What can you take from it?
- Know your limits to be truly intelligent.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Do you know your limits?
- What is intelligence?
Another view
Some geniuses push limits they do not understand.
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