“I suppose if you isolate yourself to such an extent, you more or less must expect a series of emergencies.”

“The more you expect, the more you become a slave and chained down by your desires of wishing more for yourself.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.”

Charles Bukowski book Notes of a Dirty Old Man

“People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.”

George MacDonald book The Princess and the Goblin

“There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore I must destroy you”

Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist

“The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.”

Tariq Ramadan (1962) Swiss muslim scholar

“The more you read and the more you teach yourself, the less you rely on something like drugs to take you to a better place.”

Pete Doherty (1979) English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist

“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”

Walt Disney (1901–1966) American film producer and businessman

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.”

George Orwell book 1984

“Suppose I want to paint a woman's body: first of all I imbue it with grace and charm, but I know that I must give something more. I will condense the meaning of this body by seeking its essential lines. The charm will be less apparent at first glance, but it must eventually emerge from the new image which will have a broader meaning, one more fully human.”

Henri Matisse (1869–1954) French artist