“Please open your mind to the possibility that I might be an honest man who was himself deceived.”

“Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free — he is in his own trap.”

“Always keep your mind open. In all things, always keep your mind open. Everything is possible. Especially things you know nothing about.”

“I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, … a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.”

“The earth was made so various, that the mind
Of desultory man, studious of change
And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.”

“If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.”

“Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.”

“The life of the honest man must be an apostasy and a perpetual desertion. The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself continually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors. And the man who wishes to remain faithful to justice must make himself continually unfaithful to inexhaustibly triumphant injustices.”

“No man is much pleased with a companion, who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness for himself.”

“Wine makes a man more pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.”