The wisest of wise men knows that he knows not; only a fool thinks he knows.

Spanish proverb

Patience is also a form of action.

Auguste Rodin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Rodin

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose upsides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.

Tony Schwartz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Schwartz_(author)

I write to find out what I’m talking about.

Edward Albee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Albee

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamouring to be visible.

Vladimir Nabokov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Emerson_Fosdick

A classic is a book that has never finished what it has to say.

Italo Calvino

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Calvino

The Last Laugh

I made hay while the sun shone.

My work sold.

Now, if the harvest is over

And the world cold,

Give me the bonus of laughter

As I lose hold.

Sir John Betjeman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Betjeman

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Seneca the Younger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger

The great danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss, but that it is too low and we achieve it.

Michelangelo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo