When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan SwiftNo man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Jonathan SwiftWho can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.
Jonathan Swift