The main thing is to know something and to say it.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

—Robert Staughton Lynd

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

—Wilson Mizner

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

—Anatole France

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

—Donald Foster