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Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people read more
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of read more
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the read more
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
No one wants advice -- only corroboration. - The Winter of Our Discontent.
No one wants advice -- only corroboration. - The Winter of Our Discontent.
Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time read more
Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting].
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the read more
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. -Mahatma Gandhi.
