It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
Bio: Erwin Stengel was a British psychiatrist. Born in Vienna, he studied medicine under Paul Schilder and Julius Wagner-Jauregg. With the Anschluss of 1938, he emigrated to England with Ernest Jones's assistance.
