Quotes from book

Reflections

“Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?”

“You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.”

“Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?”

“You have not forgotten to remember;
You have remembered to forget.
But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.”

“It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.”

“To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.”

“A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.”

“Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.”

“If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.”

“Knowledge is something which you can use.
Belief is something which uses you.”

“Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”

“From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:
'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.”

“It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.”

“Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.”