The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the discipline itself will have a lower opinion of himself, the more excellent he is.

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the discipline itself will have a lower opinion of himself, the more excellent he is.

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.