The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.
I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime.
Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.
. . . then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.