it is not the clear sighted who lead the world. great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm, mental fog /

Joseph Conrad? Edgar Ansel Mowrer? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: distinguished attainments are normally thought to require superior mental acuity, but the brilliant novelist Joseph Conrad apparently contended that a “warm mental fog was necessary. Would you please wait on me to find a citation? Quote Investigator: In 1915 Joseph Conrad published “Victory: An Island memoir” in […]

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