Before, they had laughed at me, despising me for my ignorance and dullness; now, they hated me for my knowledge and understanding.
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
If you want to appease me, compliment my brain.
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.
Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.