Arthur Schopenhauer

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

The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.

Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

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

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

- Arthur Schopenhauer