Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

What we call happiness is what we do not know.

What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.