. . . then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.
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.
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.