“In my experience, boys’re sadly slow thinkers.”
“Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid.”
“Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.”
“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
“If you want to stretch out your life, here's my advice: Look about for new experiences, lots of them. It slows down time.”
“I stepped from Plank to PlankSo slow and cautiouslyThe Stars about my Head I felt,About my Feet the Sea.I knew not but the nextWould be my final inch —This gave me that precarious GaitSome call Experience.”