The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

You cannot have youth and the knowledge of it at the same time; For youth is too busy living to know, and knowledge is too busy seeking itself to live.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.