Quote by Walter Scott

“But he has a clever way of getting answers with carefully worded statements.”

— Lauren DeStefano

“‎But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want to do…

— Ayn Rand

“I knew I should believe him, as he taught at Oxford, but his answers did not feel complete. It was like having a meal…

— Tracy Chevalier

“Someone who is too insistent in his own views finds few to agree with him.”

— Lao-Tzu

“...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The more the words of others impressed him with their factual content, the more he felt he must wait for his own facts before…

— Louis Zukofsky

“I realized that as a thinking person his advantage lay precisely in his lack of formal education. Nobody told him what to think, and…

— Peter Hessler

“have precious little free will," he was saying. "We're too intelligent not to see the right answers.”

— Larry Niven

“... capable of maintaining and advocating a stance which negated all that he had gleaned from his earlier clarifications.”

— Ernesto Spinelli

“...he was certain it was profound, because he didn't understand it.”

— Ayn Rand

“...and also with sufficient good judgment to appreciate that while he might enjoy the contemplation of his superiority to the masses, there was little…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and still less…

— Leo Tolstoy