I Admire Wit and Intelligence
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. A thinker sees his/her own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him/her answers above all. [b]It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently[/b].
[big]The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.[/big]
Many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed.
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. A thinker sees his/her own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him/her answers above all. [b]It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently[/b].
[big]The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.[/big]
Many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed.
