SORTS OF INTELLIGENCE
I pride myself on being intelligent, but you have no idea how stupid I can be in some areas. I could have lived a thousand years and not devised the first bridge, or possibly even the first wheel — or painted the first bird, or played the first lyre, or conceived the first rule of geometry. Yet the persons who first did these things may have been woefully deficient in some kinds of sense — philosophic, or social, or financial, or whatever we may pride ourselves on. If the human race had only one sort of intelligence — and thus only one sort of aptitude — we might still be living in caves. From Sydney J. Harris, columnist, Field Newspaper Syndicate
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