Very often, in order to give the impression of being smart, a woman needs to take a stupid look.
Even the smartest computer will be stopped by a stupid person.
Loneliness is often the byproduct of a gifted mind.
That success isn't necessarily come by being smart. I know a lot of smart people who are not successful. But I know a lot of people, who are very, very passionate.
And persistent. A lot of success in life is that passion and persistence, of really staying the course, staying working on it, and, not letting go. Not giving up. That's really, I think the most important, quality that I see in students, that I work with, who are successful.
Any idiot can accomplish something if they take it slow. Even a human piece of excrement could create a masterpiece if they spent their entire life on it! Someone who does things in a timely fashion is both wise and admirable.
Le degre d'esprit necessaire pour nous plaire, est une mesure assez exacte du degre d'esprit que nous avons.
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.
Right now you are just trying to use a limited section of your brain, and you think that is intelligence.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.