I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

I've never observed wisdom to emerge from shouting.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.

No man ever followed his genius til it misled him.

Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

I never met my greatest mentor. I wanted so much to be like him. But, his message was the opposite. Be yourself, with passionate intensity.