Familiar Quote by John Stuart Mill

“Now, in addition to these traits, he defaults to thinking that what he doesn’t see is not there, or what he does not understand…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he…

— Dalai Lama

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

— James Boswell

“His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given…

— Richard Mitchell

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

— Charles Caleb Colton

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth…

— Baruch Spinoza

“Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made the knowledge…

— Leo Tolstoy

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

— Immanuel Kant

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains,…

— Benjamin Disraeli

A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter…

— Arthur Schopenhauer