“The more a man looks at a thing, the less he can see it, and the more a man learns a thing, the less he knows it.”
“The more a man knows, the less he talks.”
“He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.”
“The more a man judges, the less he loves”
“The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw.”
“When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.”