You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.

I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.