“I love criticism just so long as it’s unqualified praise.” — Noël Coward

“I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people’s accomplishments; the front page nothing but man’s failures.” — Earl Warren

“Personalize your sympathies; depersonalize your antipathies.” — W.R. Inge

“What I cannot create, I do not understand.” — On Richard Feynman’s Caltech blackboard at the time of his death in 1988

“The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.” — E.O. Wilson

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.” — Marcus Aurelius

“When anger rises, think of the consequences.” — Confucius

“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.” — Benjamin Franklin

I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.

— Graffito in a restroom of the Ninth Circle Restaurant, New York City, noted in Robert Reisner and Lorraine Wechsler’s Encyclopedia of Graffiti, 1974

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” — Euripides

“The truest characters of ignorance / Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.” — Samuel Butler

“Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.” — Cato the Elder

“An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.” — Will Rogers