There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come
Tag: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it – but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.