More From T. S. Eliot
- "We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion."
- "Business today consists in persuading crowds."
- "As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing."
More In Intelligence
- "But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence."― Vernor Vinge
- "I’ve always felt, in all my books, that there’s a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence – providing they have the facts, providing they have the information."― Studs Terkel
- "I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."― Woodrow Wilson