An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.