A smart man isn't necessarily one who knows all the answers, but knows where to find them.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Six hours sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool.