Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

Life's a queue of small irritations with the Last Door at the end.

Just imagine the silence in the world, if people talked only what they knew

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Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may.

Three turns should do it.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.

People hook up. People don't hook up. I don't judge.

I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.