Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?"
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.