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Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

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 from above through the skylight. Continue reading Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli

 

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless. Continue reading Niccolo Machiavelli