People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them

Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told.