Jill Lepore Quotes

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.

But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

I think that God gave us a brain, and that it's the only thing we have to survive. All life forms have some advantage, some trick, some claw, some camouflage, some poison, some speed, something to help them survive. We've got a brain. Therefore it's our duty to use our brain.

We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn.

I like being outside and I like hard work.

Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.

Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

What you do makes you better at what you think. What you think makes you more effective at what you do.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?

The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron

Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.

I think you can be mature without being grown-up. You can also be grown-up without being mentally mature. One of them is forced, while the other one is your choice.

I don't think I'm that intellectual.

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.