The friend whose face is turned from you often bears a bloodier mind than the enemy who seeks your life - James Fenimore Cooper

I too am one of those Golden Men, who see both the east and the west, who cherish the glowing past and are apprehensive of the obscure future - James Michener

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods - Albert Einstein

He then, who is in reality a lover of learning, ought immediately from his infancy to be in the greatest measure desirous of all truth. - Plato

Generally, men judge by the eye rather than the hand, for all men can see a thing, but few come close enough to touch it. - Machiavelli

I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two… - Robert Louis Stevenson