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"When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it."

"A person with a big ego usually knows very little."

"Who can know anybody?' said the bookshop owner. 'Every person is like thousands of books. New, reprinting, in stock, out of stock, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, rubbish. The lot. Different every day. ..."

"In order for your wit to be appreciated, the people around you need to be witty, too. In order for your lightness of being to be appreciated, those around you must be vibrating towards the same weight..."

"Parents don't know their children at all.No one knows anyone, in fact."

"So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?"

"Dare to seek knowledge."

"You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes."

"To know someone, we must experience him, and that knowing will not exceed our self-knowledge—we cannot know someone else to a greater depth than we know ourselves."

"The problem would not exist if I asked beforehand. Hence, it is vital to ask honest questions (even if it sounds "stupid") rather than making assumptions. Everybody makes mistakes; the good news is th..."