Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 7, Verse 10

Know Me, O son of Prithâ, as the eternal seed of all beings. I am the intellect of the intelligent, and the heroism of the heroic.

Real brilliance, wherever it shows up, is described here as never fully self-generated.

This reframes where genuine intelligence and excellence actually come from. Not simply individual achievement in isolation, but something with a deeper source behind it, a real humbling of credit, not a denial of the achievement itself.