“How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.”
“A good teacher teaches what he has been taught. A wise one teaches what he has learned”
“It's been said that the role of the artist is to teach us to see and that's true. However, the role of other artists is to teach me how they see. To learn how I see is somethig that cannot be taught but must be learned.”
“The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.”
“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance”
“Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.”