“Intelligence could be more briliant within modesty.”

“But if neither sadness or rage could unite us, I didn't know what could - the more I wanted to identify with her, the more I identified with myself; and the more I tried to understand her, the less, necessarily, I succeeded: the failure of an intelligent mind to grasp feeblemindedness was dark and deep, no less than the failure of a feeble mind to grasp intelligence, because intelligence got its shape by not understanding the thing it could never be.”

“That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.”

“When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.”

“Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.”

“The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.”