“A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves”

“I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.'- Alexander the Great”

“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”

“…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth.”

“Then they asked, "What'll we do?" And the men replied, "I don't know." But it was all right. The women knew it was all right, and the watching children knew it was all right. Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole.”

“There are many rhymes about magpies, but none of them is very reliable because they are not the ones that the magpies know themselves.”