The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.