“Of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.” — Elbert Hubbard

“Knowing exactly how much of the future can be introduced into the present is the secret of great government.” — Victor Hugo

“He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.” — Cato

“Ignorance is bold, and knowledge is reserved.” — Thucydides

“When we have provided against cold, hunger and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.” — Seneca

“Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music, or pictures, or architecture, or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” — Samuel Butler

“The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf. It’s almost a law.” — H.G. Wells

“Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.” — Thomas Jefferson

“The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.” — Daniel Boorstin