Intelligence

Before, they had laughed at me, despising me for my ignorance and dullness; now, they hated me for my knowledge and understanding.

The clever thing was to break the rules and stay alive all the same.

I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral break­down, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.
When I was retarded I had lots of friends.
Now I have no one.
Oh, I know lots of people.
Lots and lots of people.
But I don't have any real friends.
Not like I used to have in the bakery.
Not a friend in the world who means anything to me, and no one I mean anything to.

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

Her own limits were the limits of her horizon; but limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.And so she felt that her outlook was very wide indeed, and that where his conflicted with hers marked his limitations.

Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.