Aldous Huxley once wrote:

Perhaps men of genius are the only true men. In all the history of the race
there have been only a few thousand real men. And the rest of us--what are we?
Teachable animals. Without the help of the real man, we should have found out
almost nothing at all. Almost all the ideas with which we are familiar could
never have occurred to minds like ours. Plant the seeds there and they will
grow; but our minds could never spontaneously have generated them.