“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”

“If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.”

“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.”

“Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.”

“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”

“He who thinks little errs much…”