I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you should reexamine your tactics.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
I don’t believe in taking right decisions. Take decisions and make them right.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.