“Rare are those people who use the mind, few use the heart and really unique are those who use both.”

“People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't.”

Bjarne Stroustrup (1950) Danish computer scientist, creator of C++

“The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould”

Oswald Chambers book My Utmost for His Highest

“Of those who want us to be wrong and those who want us to be right.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“We admire and love those people who constantly tease us, but we are doubtful of those who show us too much love.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

“We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

“People who think they know everything are annoying to those of us who do.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

“We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”

Arthur Ashe (1943–1993) American tennis player

“Those who trust us educate us.”

George Eliot book Daniel Deronda