“Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.”

“A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.”

“Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.”

“You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.”

“People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think they know.”

“To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.”

“People are always trying to understand.There is only one way to do that.It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand.”