Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become.
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Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.
The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.
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A friend is as it were a second self.
Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
Friends accept you the way you are.
I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.
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.
It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.
