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“Extroverts get better grades than introverts during elementary school, but introverts outperform extroverts in high school and college. At the university level, introversion predicts academic performance better than cognitive ability.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“It’s not that I’m so smart,” said Einstein, who was a consummate introvert. “It’s that I stay with problems longer.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“We know all about you, Rincewind the magician. You are a man of great cunning and artifice. You laugh in the face of Death. Your affected air of craven cowardice does not fool me.”
It fooled Rincewind.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

“If ever there was an avian candidate for psychotherapy, the male blue heron is our nominee.”
― Carl Sagan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

“A new generation gladly abandons its critical and skeptical faculties. Old slogans and hatreds are dusted off. What was only recently muttered guiltily is now offered as political axiom and agenda.”
― Carl Sagan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

“In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one’s face.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Psychologists have long known that people tend to see their own lives through rose-colored glasses: they think they’re less likely than the average person to become the victim of a divorce, layoff, accident, illness, or crime. But change the question from the people’s lives to their society, and they transform from Pollyanna to Eeyore.”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress