There are some people so stupid you have to show them everything. I didn’t realize that there are people so stupid you can’t show them anything.

The world is filled with polite, shy, inscrutable, unintelligible, tight lipped, superficial, dishonest and also honest people who for one reason or another do not say what they think. The search for freedom of speech has barely begun. Many do not reveal their thoughts because they are not sure what they think. Many would be braver in their speech if they were more certain of a sympathetic hearing. Many, particularly in places where success depends on conformity, are schooled to be hypocrites. The hidden thoughts in other people’s heads are the great darkness that surrounds us.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

there are bad people in this world, but mostly, there are just people who don’t know.

People don't think what they feel, don't say what they think and don't do what they say.

People look at me as this very, I don't know, Confucius-like wise person — which I'm not. They don't see all the shit that I've been through.

I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.

People resent being shown that they don't approach the complexities of the problem — they don't know what exists beyond the surface ripples.

there are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

There are some forms of knowledge which it is unwise to spread; men are not yet ready to handle them.

People don’t value their obscurity. They don’t know what it’s like to have it taken away…

No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.

Almost never do they realize that they, too, 'know things' they have learned in their relations with the world.