Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature.

In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.