I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
If you're raised with a poverty mentality, nothing is going to change it. I do know some really stingy billionaires. I come from such a generation of hand-to-mouthers.
I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.