You think you are one of the most intelligent people in the world? That in itself would make it not so.

Shakespeare was not a genius, he just could write. He wrote with the heart, and his mind was his heart. He just understood human emotion incredibly well.

Martin Luther King and Malcom X were not necessarily very smart people. They were powerful with their words in a society that needed to hear them. They rebelled, that doesn’t make them especially smart, just nonconformists.

Hitler – No. Read varenteo’s post if you must. He was too stubborn to be a genius, same goes for him being power drunk and still wanting more.

The idea of actual intelligence, and how it can stand over another person is quite redundant. It would have a lot more sense to say, ‘who are some really intelligent people?”, or something along those lines. I suppose this would be in correlation with the persons IQ? Which I personally think is an incredibly inadequate way of representing a person, and their mind.