„It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion.“

— Murasaki Shikibu

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„Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.“
— Albert Einstein
„In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary.“
— John C. Maxwell
„Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.“
— Aristotle
„If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?“
— Virginia Woolf