All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.