Ignorance, ignorance, sheer ignorance. You know there is no confidence to equal it.
(on how he got the confidence to make Citizen Kane)
On what principle is it, that when we see nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but…
Learning in old age is writing on sand but learning in youth is engraving on stone.
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance