They Do Not Think, Therefore They Are

It Is In Most Cases More Difficult To Make Intelligent People Believe That You Are What You Are Not, Than Really To Become What You Would Appear To Be.

One Has To Do Something New In Order To See Something New.

Many Intelligent People, When About To Write . . . , Force On Their Minds A Certain Notion About Style, Just As They Screw Up Their Faces When They Sit For Their Portraits.

As Soon As You Know A Man To Be Blind, You Imagine That You Can See It From His Back.

One Cannot Demand Of A Scholar That He Show Himself A Scholar Everywhere In Society, But The Whole Tenor Of His Behavior Must None The Less Betray The Thinker, He Must Always Be Instructive, His Way Of Judging A Thing Must Even In The Smallest Matters Be Such That People Can See What It Will Amount To When, Quietly And Self-collected, He Puts This Power To Scholarly Use.